nil() and (empty) fields

[Cris6]

Just a quick (hopefully) trivial question.

I have a field on a table, the field has the word '(empty)' in it, so it is not literally empty, but instead states that it is (empty).

I have a script using the nil() GlideElement.

What I want to know, will nill() return false on this field? Because there is the string (empty) in there? Or does (empty) literally mean empty, therefore nill() will be true?

[Harsh Vardhan · Accepted solution]

is it reference field or string type field? 

if reference type field then it will be empty and nil() will be true. if its string type field then it is actually a string there so it will not give true. 

[Cris6]

Hi Harshvardhan, yes it is a reference field! So (empty) does mean empty and nil() is true. Great. Thanks for the answer

[Harsh Vardhan]

then nil() will be true here .

if my answer helped you, kindly mark my answer as correct and close this thread. 

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

that field holds a string value as 'empty' so it means it has some value and is not empty

so if that is string type then it is not nil

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Thanks
Ankur