Hi

Could someone explain this to me.  I must be missing something.

I am accessing a table where there is some missing dates in a character
field (HISTORY-DT).  I wrote a simple check to see if the first character
was blank, yet the report found nothing.  I know there are definitely
records in the table that correspond to the select I used.  How can the
following not be working:

> access history
> define d-test char*1 = history-dt[1:1]
> choose rec-loc "VANDAM"
> REP REC-LOC HISTORY-DT D-TEST
> GO



2004/03/30                       Virgin Express                        PAGE
1

  Rec       History         D-TEST
  Loc         Dt

  VANDAM                01
  VANDAM                02



> SEL IF D-TEST EQ " "
> GO


Records selected:  0

> SEL IF D-TEST EQ ""
> GO


Records selected:  0

>
HISTORY                                 TYPE SCALE SCALE  DEC PICTURE
* REC-LOC                               CHAR                  X(8)
  ARC-NUMBER                            CHAR                  X(10)
  BOOKING-AGENT                         CHAR                  X(6)
  RECEIVED                              CHAR                  X(16)
  HISTORY-CODE                          CHAR                  X(2)
  HISTORY-TEXT                          CHAR                  X(64)
  HISTORY-DT                            CHAR                  X(14)

D-TEST                                  CHAR                  X(1)



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