Re: [U2] -1 and Null values

2010-05-03 Thread Dan McGrath
Actually, I think I've just remembered part of it, but not the rest. Appends an empty string: REC = A REC-1 = Doesn't append an empty string: REC = REC-1 = Sets REC2 to an empty string: REC = A REC2,-1 = Doesn't append an empty string: REC = REC1,-1 = I think my mind hasn't returned

Re: [U2] -1 and Null values

2010-05-03 Thread Symeon Breen
I think it depends on what flavour you are in as well - a number of the older pickies I work with keep forgetting this behaviour so i assume it is newer rather than older... it is rather annoying when you are building up some associated arrays and for some reason a null pops up in the data

Re: [U2] -1 and Null values

2010-05-03 Thread Mecki Foerthmann
Well, I always thought this was an inconsistency. After all unlike SQL in Pick Null is a valid value. I've never used -1 to suppress the writing of null values into multi-valued fields because I hoped they would eventually fix that bug. And for populating attributes I wouldn't use it anyway. If I

Re: [U2] -1 and Null values

2010-05-03 Thread Brian Leach
In UniVerse this is configurable via the $OPTIONS EXTRA.DELIM flag as well as being flavor dependent. But also in UniVerse, there is a specific null value (@NULL) as opposed to an empty string which is logically different. Brian ___ U2-Users mailing

Re: [U2] -1 and Null values

2010-05-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message ddc8e880ea0e4f438407b6fa651ca12f07eae...@es02.imb.net, Dan McGrath dmc...@imb.com.au writes Hi all, Hopefully I'm not going crazy, but I could have sworn in UD 7.1 that doing a -1 to append an empty string would not actually appended anything. For example: As I understood it, the

Re: [U2] Soap error question

2010-05-03 Thread Joshua Gallant
I haven't worked a ton with SOAP requests but figured I'd throw this out there any how... Do you have a permissions error preventing a write? It seems most of what you've mentioned that's working are just reads but the one that write is failing. - Josh -Original Message- From: