Re: conditional statement: indicator not blank

Doh - thanks!  My carelessness chalked up to Monday morning.

Thanks to all who pointed this out on and off list!

-Corey

Bryan Baldus wrote:
> On Monday, April 30, 2007 2:18 PM, Corey Harper wrote:
>> I tried the following variations to no avail:
>> * != '' (no space)
>> * != ' ' (with space)
>> * != undef
>> * != null
>> * != '#'
>> * !- '_'
>>
>> I ended up having to use the following, which achieved the desired 
>> effect with any of the above in the first slot:
>>
>> if ($field_7xx->indicator(2) != '' || $field_7xx->indicator(2) == 0) {
> 
> Would it not be better to use string comparison operators, ne and eq, since
> indicators may not necessarily be numeric?
> 
> Please correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> Bryan Baldus
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