One of my clients is using this to this day. I change the Blank setting to @
We are importing files with no quotation marks, and I use the exact same syntax that you use below. However, setting blank to a single character is alot easier than setting it to the word "null" Karen > Once upon a time, before the GATEWAY command, before quotation marks were > single, before XML, before other EDI standards, there were times when we had > to send data into a text file, delimited by characters that could never be in > the data. Sometimes spaces could be in the data. So programs would do things > like: > > SET BLANK="^" > OUTPUT^export.txt > UNLOAD^DATA^FOR^viewname^AS^ASCII > OUTPUT^SCREEN > SET^BLANK=" " > > > But I don't think I've messed with BLANK settings in many years. NULL might > have been a problem even then. > > > Bill > > >
