On 5 Jul 02 13:19:48 GMT, J.Groeneveld@ITGROUPS.COM (Jim Groeneveld) wrote:

>Hi Jason, > >On the other hand, I've been thinking (too fast lastly), you assign explicit >character values of lengths 0 and 1 as the first statement involving the >character variables. In those cases, the lengths of the variables become >equal to the lengths of the initially assigned explicit values, with a >minimum of 1, irrespective of later assignments. With both lengths of 1 and >comparing only the first character, the variables have equal contents (a >space).

All a bit of a red-herring, however. Regardless of assigned lengths, any blank string will always equate to any other blank string.

Blank is blank is blank. -- Ace in Basel - bruce dot rogers at roche dot com