Re: ^@ in report file

chandos@sydney.dialix.com.au (Peter Strempel) wrote: :I'am producing report files from Informix 4GL programs in association :with Chameleon 2000. : :Some of the reports have a random occurrence of ^@'s in the file. These :cause considerable problems when printed. : :Has anyone seen this sort of thing before....I have no idea where they :come from.....any help would be appreciated. ^@ looks like a null byte (00 Hex) that should hardly be possible to output from a 4GL report. It can of course be anything else depending on the tool you use to find out what's in the file. The most common reason for strange output from anything in 4GL is a variable that's not initialized (assuming you are using the C-compiled version). Another alternative may be bad data in the database. If this isn't the problem you might want to post some more information on what you are actually doing (some of the code). Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org