suppose
in the script flow as below

string org.comp(3)

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org.comp = "USA"
...........
...........
............
................
org.comp = ""
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in the above simple statment will org.comp variable will be emptied or not?

to my strange it didn't. any suggestions?

Hi,

It should work unless you are not doing anything else

string org.comp(3)

org.comp = "USA"
org.comp = ""

This part will empty it without any issues.

actually in previous iteration the value is getting assigned
in the next iteration when i am trying org.comp="" with out space its still keeping the old value. if i give it as org.comp = " " with space then value is going off.

do we need to give space " " to empty the previous value in strings?
did so many programs but this happening strangely.

thanks

What is in the actual code? Like bhushan mentioned it should work if it is declared as a string. The actual code and declaration might help someone see something.

Have you tried doing a trace on the variable in debug mode. It will stop when the variable is changed. It helps sometimes.

Joy : i tried debugging and placed trace at that place.

in previous iteration the value is org.comp = "USA"
in next interation i am initializing the variable with org.comp = ""
then going for logic.
but when the control reachs org.comp = "" and executes the line still the value in org.comp remaings value "USA" instead of ""
but when i tried initializing variable with org.comp = " " then its getting filled with space.

strange situation cam across.


mark:
here is the logic originally
org.comp = ""
on case logi.ncmp
case 100:
org.comp = "US1"
break
case 102:
org.comp = "US6"
break
case 103:
org.comp = "103"
break
case 106:
org.comp = "US4"
break
case 109:
org.comp = "US5"
break
case 131:
org.comp = "US3"
break
case 133:
org.comp = "US2"
break
default:break
endcase

for logi.ncmp i am getting value of baan companies as shown above.

How is org.comp declared - is it fixed?

exactly thats what i was thinking Mark ;)

Fixed

But even then it should work !!!

as i mentioned in my first post its declared as
string org.comp(3)

no fixed or based declarations.

simplly string org.comp(3)

Is this the only string variable that does this? I do not ever recall seeing this in 4c3. Something you can try is retcode = set.mem(org.comp, "") just to see what happens. It almost seems like the program is treating it like a fixed variable, but even then setting it to empty should work.