From: David Vallner Date: 2006-08-28T23:44:52+09:00 Subject: Re: Newbie : assign a value to a variable... Nicolas Blanco wrote > Is there a better way to do this (put the parameter in the variable if > the parameter is not null, otherwise put 20) ? The original way works. Just how much "better" than "works" do you want? I'd say fight the urges to golf. David Vallner