> I suppose you could create a boolean function that does a cast, and catches > the > execption, returning NULL.
Yes, I was puzzling over query syntax and didn't think about a function. That would be fine. -- Scott Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly