Is the the special value [NULL] ok to distinguish between null and empty string? This is the same value which is used in search fields to select all values with null. I think it would be good if we use the same notation everywhere...
Regards, Henner > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Sergio Moretti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. März 2004 14:32 > An: Henner Kollmann > Betreff: Re: AW: [dbforms] null values handling > > > Henner Kollmann wrote: > > >>Hi all, > >>It seems that null value handling for string isn't there > >>anymore (I mean > >>the way to distinguish between an empty string and a null). I > >>remember > >>that a value '$null$' in a char-like field was substituted > >>with a null > >>value. > >>Does anyone knows some way to accomplish this? > > > > > > Yes, during clean up of parsing values this feature was removed. It > > hasn't worked for all datatypes. In the moment it is not > possible to > > enter a null value for a string. Do you need this feature? > If yes we > > could easily integrate it into the FieldValue parsing routines. > > > hi henner, > for string types only there is the needs to distinguish > between a null > value and an empty one, so for me it's a good feature. > > cheers, > sergio > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ DbForms Mailing List http://www.wap-force.net/dbforms
