Re: Problem with Null string type

[Brad Hubbard]

I think this became a little more complicated than I intended somehow.

If I want to display the data in it->mobileNumber is the preferred 
method to do it like this?

if( it->mobileNumber == mysqlpp::null )
{
  something_that_requires_a_c_string = "";
}
else
{
  something_that_requires_a_c_string = it->mobileNumber.data.c_str(); // 
or it->mobileNumber.data
}

Basically, there just isn't an example that shows specifically how to do 
this and I can't find any code on the web that shows this either, not 
saying it isn't there, just saying I haven't been able to find it.

The only example using char based data does this;

            if (it->description != mysqlpp::null) {
                cout << " (" << it->description << ")";

but I presume it can do that because of an overloaded "<<" operator?

I really just want to access the string in the recommended fashion.

I appreciate you "hanging in there" on this one Warren.

Kind regards,
Brad