>Gregory:
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>as mentioned in the initial message:
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>No behaviour change
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>The record with this problem is deleted anyway and never comes up into the resultset
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>BTW, it would be
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>padr(nvl(field, SET("Nulldisplay")), 11)
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>Agnes
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>Update:
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>Hm. I'm shure to have thisone tested, but now it gives right result with NVL. Need to re check
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> Anyway, its wrong behaviour.
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>?PADR(.NULL.,11) gives a result.
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PADR(NULL,n) returns NULL. So, you always need to convert NULL to a string.

Need to check if this behavior (PADR(NULL) = NULL) is documented.