Absolutely!  Actually I have a StringUtils class with a method that I often
use:

public String safeString( String str )
{
      if( str == null )
            return "";
      else
            return str;
}

Dave D




                                                                                       
                                          
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Like Dave, I'm not sure I can see converting "" to null as a highly common
thing to do. In fact, I'd expect people to want the reverse more often
[which I suspect Dave might like}, convert any null passed in into "".


Hen






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