<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">if i want to check a string value on a condition<br>will i have to do a <span style="font-weight: bold;">"!= null"</span> and then the "<span style="font-weight: bold;">=="</span> to avoid a null pointer exception?<br><br><div> </div>Joel G. Rivera-Gonzalez<br>PRT<br><br>"The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time" - Murphy's Law<div><br></div></div></body></html>