Re: ON KEY (ACCEPT)

Posted in 1994

Clay R. Bradfield — Fri, 14 Oct 1994 23:24:37 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <199410130707.KAA02944@moscvax.demos.su>, Andrey Yu. Grachyov <andy@tern.msk.su> wrote: > > AFTER CONSTRUCT (or AFTER INPUT or ON KEY (ACCEPT) etc) > > LET my_var.field1 = get_fldbuf(field1) > LET my_var.field2 = get_fldbuf(field2) > LET my_var.field3 = get_fldbuf(field3) One thing to remember is that our beloved get_fldbuf function returns spaces rather than a NULL when passed an empty field. (Now that has to be a bug!) Depending on the program, extra processing may need to be done if validations routines or IF statements are to return expected results.