Choosing blank fields in Quiz (7.29C)

[Shah, Roshan (Windsor, HQ)]

To my understanding

You can use Blanks >0 and <= 6 
and they all should show you the same results.

Roshan Shah
MIS Consultant 
IBM Global Services

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>From: 	Kim Williams[SMTP:kim.williams@ashtech.COM]
>Sent: 	Tuesday, December 22, 1998 6:17 PM
>To: 	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
>Subject: 	Choosing blank fields in Quiz (7.29C)
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>I have a program that I wrote that the company has been using without any 
>complaints for two and a half years.  One of the first statements is to
>"CHOOSE"
>all the items in a subfile that have the field "FEDR" blank.  I wrote the 
>statement as follows:
>
>CHOOSE FEDR ""
>
>It happens to be a six character item.  I probably should have written it as
>six
>blank spaces between the quotes, but I thought it worked.  I think it
>probably 
>did work at one time, because the result would have been pretty obviously
>wrong 
>otherwise.  What actually happens is *all* the records are chosen.  I have 
>printouts dating to this program's birth and it has always been this way so
>what
>happened?  We haven't installed any Quiz patches in a long time (currently 
>version 7.29C).  We have been regularly updating our MPE operating system so 
>that has changed from time to time (C.55.00 and I think we are on powerpatch
>4 
>right now).
>
>So do you think this *never* worked right and my users (and me) are 
>spectacularly unobservant?  Or could something in my environment have changed
>and changed how my Quiz statement worked?
>
>Thanks for any help,
>Kim Williams 
>
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