Testing DATE element for spaces

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1 total messages Started by Leonard S. Berkowitz Fri, 23 Jan 1998 00:00

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Author: Leonard S. Berkowitz
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 00:00

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(sorry for posting to both lists, but I am not yet confident that all of
the "wisdom" has moved to the new list already <g>)

On the HP3000, PowerHouse 7.09:

I have an element defined as a DATE and stored as ZONED*6. Some of the data
is spaces and some is 000000. What test(s) could I apply to determine what
I have.

If I use ASCII (ELEM,6), I get 000000 either way

If I use ASCII (ELEM), I get 0 either way

If I use SIZE ASCII (ELEM), I get 1 (one) either way

SIZE (ELEM) gives an error: The datatype of the item ELEM is incorrect in
this context

INDEX (ELEM) gives the same error

I suspect that MATCHPATTERN (ELEM, "      ") will give the same error.

Thanks,

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Leonard S. Berkowitz
(work) Leonard_Berkowitz@hphc.org
(home) lberkowitz@earthlink.net

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