that did it! thanks again Josh, good find, i have been tearing my hair out over that all night
thanks again >Richard, I found this on the CF7 livedocs comments: > >============== >"Null Pointers are another name for undefined values." > >If this error is returned when trying to use the LIKE operator it is likely >because there are NULL values in the column in question. Try the following >variation: > ><CFQUERY name="aQuery" dbtype="query"> >SELECT * FROM aQuery >WHERE aField IS NOT NULL >AND aField LIKE 'right_string_exp' ></CFQUERY> > >The IS NOT NULL clause causes a NULL row to be discounted before the LIKE >clause is executed. >================= > >-- Josh > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307881 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
