Richard Sheehan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Sorry if this has ever been asked, the archives appear to be down.
>
>Does anyone know of any undesirable side effects of storing the acsii(0)
>NUL in a field in an Image Dataset?  And for the ?inevitable? future,
>how about any other DB's for that matter?
>
>I'm looking to use it or another ascii character as a logical separator
>in free form text entry, when no space occurs in the text, such as in a
>URL string.
>
>TIA,

The only drawback that I can think of is that if the first two
bytes of a field are two NULls then Query will get horky and
display the *entire* field as a <<NULL ITEM>>, even if valid
data resides in the field as of byte 3.

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