could you return a -1 instead?  or a specific numeric that you know is a null?

On 9/16/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>  
> 
> How do you handle the situation where you have a function that returns a
> numeric value and sometimes that numeric value is a null?  Setting
> returntype=numeric in the <cffunction> blows a fuse.  Do you typically set
> the return type to string or any?  If so, does this not introduce a data
> integrity problem? 
> 
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> 
> Thanks - Tom
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