I tried that. It didn't change anything. If I set null '' then it seems to work. If I set it -0- then my code does not work , and I see the -0- in the variable.
If I set null in code, does that affect just the user who is running that code, or everyone? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Buddy Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 6:43 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Variable in Cursor Check your null setting by doing this at the R:>prompt R:>SHOW NULL If you don't see -0- and your MI column has -0- then there was a problem when the data was loaded. I would suggest updating the MI by doing this R:>UPDATE tableName SET MIcolumn = NULL WHERE MIcolumn = '-0-' Buddy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kayza Kleinman Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 5:59 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Variable in Cursor This is the relevant code: declare inRows cursor for + select Clientid,LASTNAME,FSTNAME,m_i_,MaidenName from CCClientsStage2 OPEN inRows FETCH inRows into vClientid, vLastname, vFstname, vMI, vMaidenName + indicator vIndicator . . . set var vFullName = .vLASTNAME+ ',' & .vFSTNAME& .vMI set var vMainID = clientid from maininfo where + tot_name = .vFullname Tot_Name is a field that concatenates Lastname, Fstname and MI. I had originally tried the comparison using each variable to each field. Lastname and Fstaname always have a value. MI is often blank. In the concatenated field, I just see nothing when there is a blank in MI, but in the variable I see -0- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Buddy Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 4:28 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Variable in Cursor Kayza How are you comparing the null value. Also make sure you are using the indicator when selecting values from the column FETCH c1 INTO varName INDIC ivarName .... IF varName IS NULL THEN Do something here ENDIF You could also test for NULL IF ivarName = -1 THEN Do something here because varName IS NULL ENDIF Hope this helps. Buddy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kayza Kleinman Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 3:33 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Variable in Cursor I have a cursor set up and I'm comparing the values in the cursor to values in a different table. The problem is that when I pull the values in the cursor into variables, if the value in the column is null, the value of the variable shows up as a literal -0-. This is a problem because the when I do a comparison to the main table, it doesn't work. When there is a value it does work. Any ideas? Kayza Kleinman CIO & Director, Nonprofit Helpdesk Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, Inc 3001 West 37th Street Brooklyn NY 11224 718 449-5000 x 2266 fax 718 946-8240 http://kayzasblog.nphd.org/ www.jccgci.org<http://www.jccgci.org/> www.nphd.org<http://www.nphd.org/> Helping you do good - better.
