[SR-Users] About avp's, var's, null, 0 and empty string

[Juha Heinanen]

Iñaki Baz Castillo writes:

> I retrieve the value of an integer column in a MySQL table. In this
> case the value is NULL. I store the result in a $var:
> 
>  $var(client_max_calls) = $dbr(client=>[0,0]);
> 
> But the stored value is "" (empty string) rather than 0. Isn't a bit
> confussing?

inaki,

yes, it is.

have you tried what happens if you explicitly convert the rhs value to
(int)?

-- juha