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pascal trouble

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From: David Tiberio
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 01:14
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	I am doing a sort routine for my database. Unfortunately,
all of the empty cells are being placed first in the record
while all of my real data is at the end. I have thought of ways
of living with this, but would rather get those blank cells at the
end. 

	I have tried making a null string, and checking if each 
name in the record is greater or lower, but it is finding that all
of them are lower, which doesn't help. I even changed the null to a
real name and it still didn't work; it just erased my data up until
that point. 

	What is the best way to set a name to a null? I have a string
of 50 characters. The only easy way I have thought of is to change
the name to all z's. Is there another way to do this? maybe a higher
ascii code?

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Subject: pascal trouble
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