Vince - just out of curiousity, if I've got a bunch of code doing this: <cfif foo eq "">
and in some cases it's empty string and others it's null - would that code FAIL to wkr as expected under Bluedragon because null neq ""? Rick On 10/8/07, Vince Bonfanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, that code does work in BlueDragon 7.0, which can distinguish between > nulls and empty strings, and supports the "null" keyword: > > http://blog.newatlanta.com/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=5C2377F1-534E-5920-D87611A2FB9BE5EC > > Vince Bonfanti > New Atlanta Communications, LLC > http://www.newatlanta.com > > > Hi, i am getting data out of a database. i need to be able to check if > > a value returned in a query is null. > > > > i am trying to use the following code but it is not working > > > > <cfif questionTextVariables.minTextLimit is null> > > > > it seems a bit strange that the word null is not going blue to > > indicate that it is a recognised word. > > > > thanks for the help > > > > richard > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290587 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4

