If a table is empty, how do I say so?

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August 30th, 2003, 01:51 PM

jsutta

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If a table is empty, how do I say so?

Ok, I have a table in MS Access that's used for users to post announcements on. There's only one problem- if it's empty (meaning there are no announcements), the page returns an error stating that either BOF or EOF is true. Basically, it doesn't like the null status of the table. Is there a way to state something like 'There is nothing currently here.'? I've been playing with this code but it hasn't worked yet:

If an.EOF=an.BOF Then
Response.Write("There are currently no system announcements.")
Else
do while not an.eof
'This starts a loop that lists them all
End If

August 30th, 2003, 02:41 PM

Doug G

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Code:

If an.bof and an.eof then
  'empty
else
  'not empty
end if

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