Interesting concept, putting the delimiter in the <1> position then deleting it. Makes the IF within the LOOP not needed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 5:12 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Old Dog, New Tricks
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Allen E. > Elwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >You can always test, > > > >IF TEMP = '' THEN TEMP = "NULL" > > > >and likewise on the end that processes after the ARRAY is completed. > > > >1~2~NULL~4~5~NULL~... > > > >on the receiving end would be > > > >IF ARRAY<WHATEVER> = "NULL" THEN ARRAY<WHATEVER> = "" > > If you're going to do that, use (I think) EREPLACE. I think it's that > function, but there's certainly one to remove all occurrences of a > particular text. The danger is that the letters NULL will be part of a > value which then gets corrupted... > > I always did > > ARRAY := @FM : WHATEVER > > and then at the end did > > DEL ARRAY<1> > > Cheers, > Wol > -- > Anthony W. Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 'Yings, yow graley yin! Suz ae rikt dheu,' said the blue man, taking the > thimble. 'What *is* he?' said Magrat. 'They're gnomes,' said Nanny. The man > lowered the thimble. 'Pictsies!' Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett 1998 > Visit the MaVerick web-site - <http://www.maverick-dbms.org> Open Source Pick > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
