Clarification on "" vs. IsEmpty

[jasongodoy]

Hey everyone, my senario goes like this. My tech director built the system we have today in FileMaker 5.5 and we are curretly looking to upgrade everything to FM7. More specifically, as I was going through his scripts, I noticed he was checking for fields that were blank using the ' = "" '. However, now looking into the future and upgrading our database to version 7, I was wondering if the ' = "" ' method would work in 7 or would we have to change all the "" to IsEmpty? Will the behavior stay the same in 7 as it is in 5.5?

Thanks

J

[Zero Tolerence]

= "" works fine in FM7.

[RalphL]

Even in FMP 5.5 IsEmpty is prefered over ="".

[jasongodoy]

That's what I've been told RalphL. Unfortunate thing is that ="" is used all over the place. Would make for hours and hours of changes (56 total files in all).

J

[-Queue-]

If ="" is used in text fields and number fields, you will probably have no major issues. If it is used in date or time fields, it would probably be better to change them.