Johannes, yea, i think im just going to go ahead and go with that. thank 
you!

On Thursday, January 2, 2014 4:26:42 PM UTC-6, Johannes Mockenhaupt wrote:
>
> Well, since Cypher can't test for property type, how about asking for 
> all nodes with the Superclass label that have the name property and then 
> check and update the returned nodes as necessary in the ruby script? 
>
> On 01/02/2014 11:22 PM, Javad Karabi wrote: 
> > Johannes, youre absolutely right, and i agree! however, the import 
> > script i used did not take into account the fact that i may sometimes 
> > get arrays, and now my db has arrays and strings intermixed as the name 
> > property type. 
> > 
> > so, to rectify it, i would like to grab all nodes which have name as an 
> > array, grab the first element (in ruby), then set the value of the 
> > property to that first element. 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thursday, January 2, 2014 4:17:33 PM UTC-6, Johannes Mockenhaupt 
> wrote: 
> > 
> >     I don't think having the same property be a string on some nodes and 
> an 
> >     array on others is the way to go - you'll end up checking for type 
> all 
> >     the time. Which is also not possible in Cypher as far as I know. Why 
> >     not 
> >     make it an array/collection all the time and query it like this: 
> > 
> >     MATCH (n:Superclass) 
> >     WHERE any(name IN n.name <http://n.name> WHERE name =~ 
> >     '(?i).*SWEATERS.*') 
> >     RETURN n 
> > 
> >     On 01/02/2014 11:02 PM, Javad Karabi wrote: 
> >     > Johannes, that seems to be exactly it. some of my nodes have a 
> >     string, 
> >     > some an array of strings. 
> >     > thank you 
> >     > 
> >     > is it possible, then, to test on a properties type? 
> >     > 
> >     > 
> >     > On Thursday, January 2, 2014 3:53:20 PM UTC-6, Johannes 
> >     Mockenhaupt wrote: 
> >     > 
> >     >     I can reproduce this when the property in question is an array 
> of 
> >     >     strings. Thus your 'name' property appears to be an array 
> >     where you 
> >     >     expect it to be a string. 
> >     > 
> >     >     On 01/02/2014 09:46 PM, Javad Karabi wrote: 
> >     >     > match (n:Superclass) where n.name <http://n.name> 
> >     <http://n.name> =~ 
> >     >     "(?i).*SWEATERS.*" return n; 
> >     >     > 
> >     >     > Expected [Ljava.lang.String;@36b3041f to be a 
> java.lang.String, 
> >     >     but it was a [Ljava.lang.String; 
> >     >     > 
> >     >     > Neo.ClientError.Statement.InvalidType 
> >     >     > 
> >     >     > did i do something wrong in the query? 
> >     >     > 
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