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. -- Mike Reaser, Atlanta, GA, USA B2f+tw+dcvg+kvs++l+ ICQ 36141307 If it's there, remove the YOUKNOW to, well, you know "Ignorance" is as much a method of computer security as "Hope" is a method of birth control -- K. Ward/L. Joynes * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *