Ah...it looks like what happens if you interpret 8 ASCII space characters as an integer:
x'2020202020202020' = 2314885530818453536 The bogus value is allegedly 23148855308184500, but I'd be willing to believe that someone dropped the $35.36 on the end! Either that or the value was ALMOST blank (x'2020202020201250') and that's why it didn't simply skip it. Or maybe they DID spend $46.88 (x'1250') and the real error was blank-padding instead of zero-padding. Yeah, that's it... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
