On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:41:11AM -0700, Alan Mead wrote: > > --- James Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well the only bad thing is that it returns data where there should > > be no > > data. ie: '""' instead of the expected '', causing the program to > > treat > > '""' as if it were a real string. > > > All the better. The string '""' is unlikely to exists you your > database naturally, right? So when you see it, you have a NULL. That's correct. What I've learnt over the past 2 days though is that I'll be leave blinded by all this unless I go pickup a book on database and read it! :)
> > Or you could, as you suggested earlier, just convert it to an empty > string. I might do that if I have no luck with a TDataset desendant... Thanks Alan, James > > -Alan > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal -- - - James Mills Zero Defect Software Engineers Group - ZDSEG _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
