Chapter 20. Conquering Big Problems that Come In Small Packages
In Chapter 19, you learned about parsing and concatenating data. This chapter deals with other potential pitfalls that a programmer might face that come in small packages. When you know what you are facing and how to face it ahead of time, you can’t help but be a better programmer. That’s the reason so much space has been devoted to overcoming obstacles. When problems come along, you instinctively know what tools need to be employed to work through the difficulty. Specifically, you learn the following:
how to master quotes and pounds
how to use the BuildCriteria function
how to test quotes and pounds
what must be done to control nulls
the difference between nulls and zero-length strings ...
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