On 21 Feb 2002, Jeff Zucker wrote: > Tim Bunce wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:52:11PM -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > > > > > > I've been emulating a pseudo-SQL command, UNLOAD, in DBI and > > > DBD::Informix, and one of the messy parts is handling the mapping of > > > undef into an empty string so as not to get warnings with 'perl -w'. > > Amen. The problem is compounded in drivers like DBD::CSV which can't > consistently distinguish between empty strings and NULLs.
So don't use CSV. Dump to XML with XML::Generator::DBI :-) > > My reluctance is mainly due to the many simple alternatives available. > > > > But I could probably be persuaded if enough driver authors gang up on me :) > > Gang, Gang. I'd rather not see it, personally. But then I'm new at this ;-) -- <!-- Matt --> <:->Get a smart net</:->
