By jove, you're right! In this example, you COULD shorten the clause and it would work! I missed that!!
But back to the 'issue' I was raising, although in this example it's moot - the generic statement was that 'IF ... # ... THEN' is 'bad style' ?? I still have missed why that should be considered 'wrong' or 'bad'. If it's purely style, then that's OK too and discussion over! Different horses for different courses! But when someone tells me something is 'bad', I want to know the reasons why so I can advance my understanding. DW -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Romanow Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 1:09 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Is this worth rewriting? On 3/2/2011 2:05 PM, David Wolverton wrote: > As what if PARMS(7)<102,CM> = 0? 0 would 'fail' the 2nd test, but is 'not > blank'. So you cannot 'shorten' the clause at all. It either has to be = "" > or # "" in this case (not knowing anything about the data). Adding a zero into the sum is basically a NOOP. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
