On Nov 18, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Jaensch, Steffen [TIBBE] wrote:

Hi all,



Can somebody explain why length("") returns 1 and not 0? How do I test
if a given string is the empty string?

character(0) is not the same as ""


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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

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