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From:
Simon Oliver
Date:
February 22, 2001 05:37
Subject:
Re: Handeling undef data.
Message ID:
3A9516D9.4060304@umist.ac.uk
>     if ($row[$i] ne ""){
This tests for an empty string not an undefined value.

Try something like:

   if (defined $row[$i]) {
     if ($row[$i] ne "") {
       print $row[$i] . "\t";
     } else {
       print "Empty string in row\t";
     }
   } else P
     print "NULL value in row\t";
}

--
   Simon Oliver
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