Why empty resultset ?????-URGENT

problem in somewhere else, post your real code.

That sounds like you're in a bad mood kenneth ;-)

if(skill!=null&& skill.length() != 0 &&!skill.equals("")){
     out.println( "Adding '" + skill + "'<br/>" ) ;
//insert data;
}

what does it print?

No, I'm not :-(
Could it be the cause that English is my second language?
I'm working on projects in same time, that might be another reason that I didn't pay attention to proper phrase the sentence. Sorry Jasbir21.

>> Could it be the cause that English is my second language?

I'm sorry kenneth.  I was only joking.  For the record, I haven't seen you be anything other than patient and helpful :-)

Hi Jim, no sorry. In fact, I really thank you for reminding me on that. Look, Tim was obviously taking a much better approach then I did :-)

Just for info:

if(skill!=null&& skill.length() != 0 &&!skill.equals(""))

could be shortened to:

if(skill!=null && skill.length() > 0)

and lengthened to:

if( skill == null ? false : skill.length() > 0 ? true : false )

hehehehehe

(sorry) :-(

hi,
sorry for the late response, we had leave the lab because to late .Now, I can enter again:

the code is :
with println, i see empty string get inserted:...

if(skill!=null && skill.length() > 0)
 
{
 
out.println( "Adding '" + skill + "'<br/>" ) ;

  StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(skill,",");
  String[] ar = new String[st.countTokens()];
  int i=0;


if(st.hasMoreTokens()){

while(st.hasMoreTokens())
 {
  ar[i]=st.nextToken();

 


 String query = "insert into userskills(username,skill) values(?,?)";
  prep3=connection.prepareStatement(query);
  prep3.setString(1,username);
  prep3.setString(2,ar[i]);
  prep3.executeUpdate();
   i++;

}

}

          }//if


prep3.close();

.....

it works like this:
In volunteer.jsp,you have this:
<textarea type="text" name="skill" rows="5"  cols="15" wrap readonly >
</textarea>
and this value is assinged to bean and directed to DB.jsp which does inserting.
the code skill!=null..........is in DB.jsp


thanks

i forgot to say in volunteer.jsp , it is assigned like this:

String  skill=vol.getSkill();

I able to delete skill in volunteer.jsp and when i mysql database, i see in table userskills in database, skill really get deleted, not any empty strings.

But when i press button submit , then only empty string gets inserted.

Thansk you

Unless you are using the array "ar" for some other purpose, it's not required, you could change:

if(st.hasMoreTokens()){

while(st.hasMoreTokens())
 {
  ar[i]=st.nextToken();
  String query = "insert into userskills(username,skill) values(?,?)";
  prep3=connection.prepareStatement(query);
  prep3.setString(1,username);
  prep3.setString(2,ar[i]);
  prep3.executeUpdate();
   i++;
}

to:

if(st.hasMoreTokens()){

while(st.hasMoreTokens())
 {
  String query = "insert into userskills(username,skill) values(?,?)";
  prep3=connection.prepareStatement(query);
  prep3.setString(1,username);
  prep3.setString(2, st.nextToken());
  prep3.executeUpdate();
}

However, this doesn't explain why you're getting empty strings inserted into the database.

Could you just confirm that you see the following:

Adding ''

If you see something like:

Adding ' '

you might want to consider changing:

String  skill=vol.getSkill();

to

String  skill=vol.getSkill().trim();

yah, i get something like this ' ', i  change now

i got error:

java.lang.NullPointerException
      org.apache.jsp.jsp2.volunteerupdateDB_jsp._jspService(volunteerupdateDB_jsp.java:189)
      org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:133)
      javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
      org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:311)
      org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:301)
      org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:248)
      javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)

maybe this is because, the skill value needs not to be entered, i think,not sure
thanks

i mean, the skill textarea, need not to be entered, i mean, if user never enter skill textarea, it is ok.

i hope i not confusing with bad english

Thanks very much,it works

;-)