Strange characters in data

[Walker, Chris]

Hex 20 is a space, so there's no point in trimming it as the resulting
fixed-length field is space-padded.  For hex 00:

def d_zero integer size 1 = 0
def d_null char*1 = character(d_zero)
def d_ndx = index(stringfield, d_null)		;Or the other way round, why
can I never remember this?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Terry Pickering [SMTP:pickering@myself.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 15, 1999 6:51 PM
> To:	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject:	RE: Strange characters in data
> 
> 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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