>>>You can use
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>>>update States set State = 'SP' where Len(State) = 0 && Empty state
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>>That will not work, as all fields will have the length of the field, you need len(alltrim(State)) = 0, but I would rather use empty(State)
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>In this case EMPTY(State) should work (assuming State is not a memo field).
Empty() works on any type of field or expression, that's the beauty of it. Even memos.