Re: Blank vs. space (not null) from a database

[Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I may be misinterpreting your question, but why not
"when some_field is empty" or "when the contents of
some_field is empty" the whatever will do whatever.

--- Jill Thompson-Weintraub <jilltwfl -at- hotmail -dot- com>
wrote:

> When referring to the empty contents of a field
> extracted from a database (the field is not a null),
> is it preferable to write, "... when the contents of
> some_field is blank, [the whatever will do
> something]", or "... when the contents of some_field
> is a space, [the whatever will do something]". 
>
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