Well, this only tells you if any records were returned, not if a particular
field in a record is empty...

Chris Lofback
Sr. Web Developer

TRX Integration
28051 US 19 N., Ste. C
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-----Original Message-----
From: Terry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 3:43 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: if value exists, show it


If you're wanting to know if it was returned from a query..
<cfif queryname.recordcount>
        #variable#
</cfif>



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On 6/3/02 at 1:08 PM trey wrote:

>I simply want to test to see if a variable has a value (eg text has been 
>returned from a query) and if so, show it. There seem to be a few options
>--
>
><cfif isdefined(#variable#)>
>       #variable#
></cfif>
>
>or
>
><cfif len(#variable#) GT 0>
>       #variable#
></cfif>
>
>or
>
><cfif #variable# IS "">
>       #variable#
></cfif>
>
>Is one of these better than the others for dealing with text values? I 
>understand that IsDefined should be locked; I assume that is not the case 
>for the other two.
>
>TIA,
>Trey 
>
>
>

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