Rob,

Irrespective of what Firebird/InterBase does with an empty table name, my
point is if you wanted it (assuming the database allows it) then you can
explicitly put "" in the TableName property. Therefore, I agree that I
should treat a blank string there as simply nothing being assigned and not
allow it to convert it to "".

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IBObjects@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Robert Martin
Sent: Monday, December 2, 2013 12:49 PM
To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [IBO] String parsing issue with TableName setting

> I probably could make a fix for it to ignore it because if you wanted to
> work with an empty tablename you could just directly assign it "" and it
> would recognize it. I'll put in a fix for the next release. You can

probably

> patch it easily enough or do you want me to just send you a patch?

Hi

I'm not sure I have explained the issue clearly enough. I feel that if
you set table name to an empty string it should stay that way. It
doesn't make sense for the component to treat it as a reserved word and
encapsulate it in double quotes, its not like you can create tables in
Firebird that have no name!

You cant do this..

CREATE TABLE ""
(
....
)

OR

SELECT * FROM ""


Therefore it doesn't make sense that when you set a table name to ''
(empty string) to indicate unassigned that the component converts this a
string containing two double quotes ("").

Code example

myTable.Tablename := ''; //Set to empty string

ShowMessage(myTable.Tablename); //Displays ""

The above displays "", in older IBo versions it (correctly) displayed a
blank message box.


I can't see that changing my code to assign tablename as "" and having
your components convert that to an empty string makes any sense.

If you don't think a fix to IBO is required please let me know and I
will just change my code to also treat "" as an empty table name.

Cheers


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