array mystery

[Richard Gaskin]

Peter M. Brigham wrote:
> On May 3, 2012, at 5:34 PM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Peter.
>>
>> There was a very recent thread about permissible chars for an array, and it seems that all chars except null work fine. is it possible that your recalcitrant empty lines might contain (or simply be) a null?
>
> Would putting the string into a field then putting the text of the field back into a variable remove any null characters?

I don't think so, but this will:

   replace NULL with empty in tSomeData

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