Steve Dawson wrote: > If you're retrieving data from an SQL database, you could see if it > supports ISNULL(). It allows you to select an alternate value that will > be returned if the requested field is null. Maybe you can use that to > avoid your undef...
This was one way to approach it but it still means I have to go through and tend to each field in each query individually which I feel is not really bomb-proof as I won't know if I've missed one until it happens. I wondered whether something like this could be set globally? Thinking about this though I would really prefer to do it in perl and basically get it to suppress warnings regarding the use uninitialized strings and just use '' so that if I get unexpected parameters at runtime, not just from a query, I won't end up causing a warning. Or am I missing the point of warnings? Cheers Mark _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
