Strange characters in data

[Terry Pickering]

I tried the suggestion about using an item statement with the value saved - didn't work.


The original file is a VARIABLE length record and the field is 34 characters (as defined in the dictionary). I was truncating it down from 34 to 15 because that's all we use. When I "dumped" the record. It appears some of the characters following the last good ones are HEX 20 and HEX 00. 


So how do I go about trying to find these with an index function? I know how to use it normally, but how do you search for HEX values?




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