Re: ace fields with blanks

bonk@positron.med.ge.com (Frank Bonk) writes: >I'm very new with ace so be gentle with me. >I have a char[30] field that has company names with >embedded spaces. When I enter the name with the space >the named company is not found. If I enter the name >with out the space, every thing is fine - but the >users don't like it. Is there a way to pass in a string >with an embedded blank? If I underdstand the question correctly, you have an imput parameter with strings in it (not in the first or last positions, but inside, like "Relational Database Systems". In this case I'm surprises that it works without the spaces ("RelationalDatabaseSystems") passed in, but I think you mean that when you pass in a company whose name has no spaces in it, it runs fine (if not, send sample code and examples of what does and does not work). Anyway, put the string in quotes so that ACE knows it to be one long string instead of several short ones. So instead of passing in: Relational Database Systems pass in: "Relational Database Systems" Users complain about having to add the quotes? Do it for them in a shell: echo "Enter company name: \\c" read cname cname=\\"$cname\\" sacego whatever $cname ======================================================================= Dennis J. Pimple dennisp@informix.com Opinions expressed Senior Consultant -------------------- are mine, and do not Informix Software Inc Voice: 303-850-0210 necessarily reflect Denver Colorado USA Fax: 303-779-4025 those of my employer. Kudos to everyone who remembers "Relational Database Systems", the first name for the company we now know as Informix.