James has my intention correctly:

my $x=0;
if($x)  #this would return false which is NOT I was looking for.

To recap, I want to test if a var is undefined or ''.

Thus, this would be equivalent to my isNULL() approach?

 if(undefined $x && length($x)==0)

thanks,
-rkl

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: James Edward Gray II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 5:20 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: Testing Uninitialized Vars
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 07:08  PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> > you mean $x=0; would be false?
>>
>> Yep.
>>
>> James
>>
> Gotcha.  You meant to ask if $x==0 would be false... (I'm guessing).
>
> -Mark
>


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