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in reply to Re: Re: Re: Null fields
in thread Null fields

Ah, but I always understood that '' was not the same as null, at least for strings. After all '' ne undef in Perl.

On the other hand, I also believe that this distinction is database dependent :-(

Update: As merlyn rightly points out, '' eq undef is true. I goofed.