hi there, i have the following query ... <cfquery name="getOrders" datasource="#Request.app.dsn#" password="#Request.app.DBpassword#" username="#Request.app.DBusername#"> SELECT orders.order_id, orders.dCreated, orders.billing_fname, orders.billing_lname, orders.billing_country, orders.currency, orders.currency_value, orders.order_status, payment_authority.success, payment_authority.responseText FROM orders LEFT OUTER JOIN payment_authority ON orders.order_id = payment_authority.order_id WHERE order_receipt_sent = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_bit" value="0"> ORDER BY orders.dCreated DESC </cfquery> i am using an outer join as i wish to display all orders whether they have an associated entry in the payment_authority table or not. with each row of the query i display the #payment_authority.responseText# value. the payment_authority.responseText data is variable. now if the row does not have any associated entries in the payment_authority table, how do i reference the [empty-string] value returned? eg. <cfif NOT len(payment_authority.responseText)> does not seem to recognise the null value.
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