Matthew,
Just to add to what others have mentioned, the value of visualizing null
as a value helps to distinguish it from other values, like a blank/space
(which do not evaluate as null).
Ben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Matthew Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List)
> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:03:21 -0600
> Subject: [RBASE-L] - How do I make NULL truly NULL?
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> I imagine there’s a simple way to do this but I can’t manage to
figure out how.
>
> I try to use R> SET NULL ‘’ and it does nothing, NULL keeps
whatever value it previously had stored, in my case that is -0- which I
believe is the default. I want NULL to be void of any and all data,
both visually and logically, not represented by some text I define.
>
> Matthew Burke
> Pioneer Bank - IT Department
> Computer Systems Technician
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