• Subject: Re: *BLANKS = spaces?
  • From: "David Keck" <dkeck@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:22:11 -0700

Yes.  They are all equivalent.  Blank and space are synonymous.
*BLANKS generates spaces which in EBCDIC (as opposed to ASCII) can be
represented as x'40' (hexadecimal 40).
-DaveK

----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Porterfield <sporter@bestdist.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 8:53 AM
Subject: *BLANKS = spaces?


> If I MOVE *BLANKS to a field, is that the sames as *ALL ' ' or having
> spaces?  I've noticed that the AS/400 generally doesn't seem to
> distinguish between a blank and a space in most instances.



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