Re: quote-space-quote

[Joe Johnson <jejohn1216@SURFREE.COM>]

Thanks, Vijay and Gina!

Follow-up question --

Can a string variable be initialized to quote-quote or does it need to be quote-space-quote?  It would make my life easier if I changed all the $dates to initialize to '' and not ' '.

Thanks again - in advance

- Joe

On Wed, 20 October 1999, "Bencke, Gina" wrote:

>
> Joe,
>
> SQR 3.x stored dates in sting variables.  SQR 4.3.4 has a date variable
> type.  The date variable type will accept a null date (quote-quote), but
> not a string with a space (quote-space-quote). Unfortunately both string
> variables and date variables begin with a $, so its difficult to know
> what type of variable you are dealing with.
>
> Gina Bencke
> Bencke Consulting Corporation
> gina@bencke.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Johnson [mailto:jejohn1216@SURFREE.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 3:28 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SQR-USERS
> Subject: quote-space-quote
>
>
> Hi, group.
>
> Oracle 8 (upgrade from Oracle 7)
> PS Apps 7.02 (upgrade from 7.01)
> PS Tools 7.05 (upgrade from 7.01)
> SQRW 4.3.4 (upgrade from 3)
>
>
> We are finding that SQR 4.3.4 bombs on SQRs that initialize
> $date_variables to ' ' {that is, quote-space-quote}.
>
> We changed this to '' {quote-quote} and they work.
>
> The quote-space-quote worked fine in SQRW 3.
>
> Anybody else run into this?  Want to explain why?
>
> TIA
>
> Joe Johnson ;{)
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