On 14 Dec 2015, at 2:26pm, Anthony Damico <ajdamico at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, sql standard says to strip whitespace and then convert. "" coercing to
> zero instead of NULL strikes me as very odd.. thanks
In your command
SELECT CAST('' AS INTEGER)
you explicitly tell it to
CAST('' AS INTEGER)
which means it has to return an integer. The integer most like a zero-length
string is zero. NULL is a different type of value.
In SQL a zero-length string has nothing to do with NULL. A zero-length string
is just another string. NULL means something like "value missing" or "value
unknown" or "no such value". SQLite never confuses the two.
Simon.
