FW: Any concerns with using NUL char with PowerHouse

[Edis, Bob]

G'day Richard

I've had problems in the past where an index used from primary file
retrieval in a screen contained a null.  The results were unpredictable but
often records could not be viewed even though a user had just entered them.
These were NOT the records that contained the NULL.  Removing the NULLs from
the index column eliminated the problem.

Regards,
Blue

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Sheehan [mailto:sheerich@isu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:01 PM
To: PowerHouse List
Subject: Any concerns with using NUL char with PowerHouse


Hello,

Does anyone know of any undesirable side effects of storing the acsii(0)
NUL in a field in an Image Dataset?  And for the ?inevitable? future,
how about any other DB's for that matter?

How might this affect any PowerHouse applications?

Initial testing seems to show no side effects. Size() and Index() seem
to work properly on the test data.  Printing also seems unaffected.

I'm looking to use it or another ascii character as a logical separator
in free form text entry, when no space occurs in the text, such as in a
URL string.

TIA,

-- 
Richard Sheehan,
Administrative Systems - IT Programmer Analyst
Idaho State University Computing & Communications
Campus Box 8037, Pocatello, ID 83209-8037
Phone: 208.282.3861 - Fax: 208.282.3673
Email: sheerich@isu.edu

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