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From: Michael Reifenberger <root@rz-wb.fh-sw.de>
Subject: Searching for empty String.
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Hi. My first question to the list is:
How can I retrieve for empty strings.
After creating:
 create C (num=int4, name=text)
and after reading in from a file I have:
spog > retrieve (C.all)
 124          (null)      
 2234         gfgfg       
 22           (null)      

Ok, so far, so good.

Now if I do:
retrieve (C.all) where C.name = ""
I get no results but from my understanding it should be:
 124          (null)
 22           (null)

Is this a bug or feature?
Is the any way to retrieve empty (null) fields?

Bye!
....
Michael Reifenberger


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