thanks, it was that simple.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Robert Boone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It maybe as simple as changing == to eq
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> On Jul 21, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Michael Dickens wrote:
>
>  Hello all. I live in Pearland and I have been following your group for a
>> while and want to see if you can help me with a problem I am having.
>>
>> I am retreiving data from mysql using DBI here is the code
>>
>> while ( ($id, $vote) = $sth->fetchrow_array() ) {
>>    $vote = "maybe" if vote == "";
>>    print "$id\t$vote\n";
>> }
>>
>> but when I do this, all the vote records retreived are changed to 'maybe'
>> instead of just the ones that match "".
>> Can I use a conditional statement on the values retreived from mysql?
>>
>> here is what is in mysql
>> id | vote
>> 1 | no
>> 2 | NULL
>> 3 | yes
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>>
>> thanks
>> Michael
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