As I made clear in an earlier post, it is my habit to pad out table elements with nuls, instances of x'00', to make all of their lengths equal.
This operation is trivial in the macro language, but in response to some off-line questions I note that either of |&nulchar setc BYTE(x'00') or |&nulchar setc BYTE(0) makes a nul character available at assembly time. The bif BYTE is generic. Moreover, nuls are unproblematic; they are invariant, the same in ASCII, EBCDIC, . . . John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
