does that still work if there are attr/value marks but everything else is null ?

not sure, never tried, but i know i've seen recs with nothing but these before

ellusian, lol, sounds like the aliens with the big brains that could make you see things that weren't there in star trek (had to look it up, it's talosians)

On 8/31/2012 4:56 PM, Rutherford, Marc wrote:
David,

Create an 'I' type dictionary which with this function:

< 1 > Top of "REC_LEN"

001: I
002: LEN( @RECORD )
003:
004: LEN
005: 10R
006: S

Select the file with your new dict = 0

SELECT PARTS WITH REC_LEN = "0"

Marc Rutherford
Principal Programmer Analyst
Advanced Bionics LLC
661) 362 1754

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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Morelli, David W.
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 4:43 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: [U2] Friday type of question

Is there an easy way to determine if a record is empty?

I have a saved list of a thousand or more records that have record ID's that 
interfere with our Ellusian database.

If they are truly empty, I can do house cleaning on them.  If they contain any 
data, I have to do a different process.

When I AE into a record I get
:AE PERSON 2362
Top of "2362" in "PERSON", 0 lines.

So, it is really empty.

I believe there must be a better way than handling every one of them, but I 
have been away from Unidata and forgotten everything.

David Morelli
Pacific University
Oregon

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