Who knows? Because it made sense to the programmer. We put lots of empty lines in these e-mails. (Technically they contain one or two delimiter characters, but from a reader's point of view they are zero length.) I'm going to write a file of 100 records, with each record containing the Widget ID of my 100 Widget entities. If the Widget ID is null, why can't that record be null? Why should I have to design an application specific "special" null record?
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas H Puddicombe Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 7:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Zero length records outlawed! (Again.) Then again ... Why would a rational programmer cause an "empty" record to be written in the first place? To give the programmer writing the code to process the data a little something extra to do? To make sure the testers are doing their job? What? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
