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Function empty() and null value
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27/06/2011 12:37:14
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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
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Thread ID:
01516146
Message ID:
01516297
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It is possible. But explaining to a customer the purpose or why he/she sees .NULL. on the form may not be easy either.

>Wouldn't there be a risk of hard-to-diagnose problems if you do that? You could BROWSE or display the data and it'll look blank, but in the code it'll NULL values will still return .F. for EMPTY().
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>>I have had the same experience in VFP (not using NULL). This is why I love the command:
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>>SET NULLDISPLAY TO ""
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>>>So far I have worked with the Visual FoxPro Database. I rarely insert NULLs intentionally, they usually appear from the result of an outer join.
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