[pmwiki-devel] Testing empty string

[Jiri Hladůvka / OBUTEX]

christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com napsal(a):
> ...
> But back to the bug... Personally I'd expect a syntax error from
>
>     (:if "" :)
>
> but as it's not NULL, I guess the result should be true. 
> Unfortunately, I think many authors would expect it to return false. 
> What do you think?
> (We should look at the user case, i.e. someone doing something like
>
>     (:if "{$Variable}" :)
>
> where {$Variable} is emtpy (or perhaps rather, not set)
>
> Regards,
> /Christian
>
You are right. I think that only author beeing professional programmer 
could come with such a test.
After all such a person should be able to find a workaround when debugging.

Regards,
Jiri

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