Simple Query Question

[essential quint]

Greetings,

I'm writing a login script for a website, and the first subroutine will look 
up the username.  But suppose the username doesnt exist in the database, 
then what kind of value will MySQL or DBI return?  I need it for writing the 
conditional in the control structure.

Thanks,

quint

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