Does anyone Know Why?

[Mercury]

Re: Does anyone Know Why?

DAC,
Arrow is right. The display you show here is hex, therefore you should test MSGTEST (or msgtext2) against *ALLx'00' not ' '.

If MSGTEST = [B]*ALLX'00'[/B] ;
  Leave;
Endif;

Billw

Yes you are only comparing msgtxt to one (1) blank. And as bryce says compare it to all *blanks or *blank same diff.

It doesn't matter. You can compare a character field to one blank literal character or figurative constants *blank or *blanks, all give the same result.

[tomholden]

Re: Does anyone Know Why?

x'00' is null...the periods are just placemarkers since null is NO value...