On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Chisel Wright <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:17:46AM -0500, fREW Schmidt wrote:
> >    Oh yeah, I saw that for sure.� I was hoping for some kind of setting
> that
> >    I could set that would convert '' to null in fields that aren't
> strings.�
>
> Erk! Each to their own.
>
> Where are these empty strings coming from in the first place? Ideally,
> and unsurprisingly, I'd much rather have "undef" for "a field value that
> hasn't been defined".
>
> To me, and presumably others, '' (blank) means "we know what it is, it's
> nothingness".
>
> Can't the incoming data be "fixed" instead of kludging your queries?
>

Well that's what I'm doing.  I'm fixing it.  Iterating over given values and
changing them from blanks to undefs.  If you know a way to do that with
javascript (http posts) let me know, but as far as I know it will submit
blanks for blank fields.

-- 
fREW Schmidt
http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com
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