Re: Pretty Easy I bet

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2000


It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Thank you John Butler...got it CC--- You wrote: a var will only equal null when assigned that value - either on purpose via form var (that includes passed in URLs), or from if you getting a db field value where that field has no text in it yet (this includes orderfile headers).If a var is unititialized (not given a value by any means, then it's value = [var].[showif [URL][var1][/URL]=[URL][raw][var1][/raw][/URL]] var1 has not been initialized (if that is the right terminology... ie var1 has not been assigned a value [/showif]If you are using the XML webcat tags and parser then an unititialized var = undefined (I think. Someone correct me if I am wrong).Always take note if the var is potentially getting its value from: 1) a db field (incl. ordefile header) , or else 2) other means like formvar, [math], [text] , etc. --- end of quote ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Pretty Easy I bet (chas@valley.net (chas) 2000)
  2. Re: Pretty Easy I bet (John Butler 2000)
  3. Pretty Easy I bet (chas@valley.net (chas) 2000)
Thank you John Butler...got it CC--- You wrote: a var will only equal null when assigned that value - either on purpose via form var (that includes passed in URLs), or from if you getting a db field value where that field has no text in it yet (this includes orderfile headers).If a var is unititialized (not given a value by any means, then it's value = [var].[showif [url][var1][/URL]=[url][raw][var1][/raw][/URL]] var1 has not been initialized (if that is the right terminology... ie var1 has not been assigned a value [/showif]If you are using the XML webcat tags and parser then an unititialized var = undefined (I think. Someone correct me if I am wrong).Always take note if the var is potentially getting its value from: 1) a db field (incl. ordefile header) , or else 2) other means like formvar, [math], [text] , etc. --- end of quote ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ chas@valley.net (chas)

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