NULL KEY
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Description
Constant: string NULL_KEY = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000";The string constant NULL_KEY has the value "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
While technically a string constant, it is only useful as a key.
Despite fitting the syntax criteria to be a valid key, when fed to a Conditional as a key it executes as FALSE.
Caveats
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Examples
<lsl>integer isKey(key in) {
if(in) return 2; return (in == NULL_KEY);
}//returns 2 if it's a valid key, 1 if it's NULL_KEY</lsl>
Notes
Like any LSO string constants longer then 3 characters and used in multiple places in the code, they should be stored in a global variable. The result will be a considerable memory savings. This does not apply to scripts compiled with Mono. See LSL Constants vs Globals for more information about this and examples.
In most situations NULL_KEY isn't needed; an empty string ("") will suffice. To take advantage of this certain practices have to be avoided. In many applications keys are checked against NULL_KEY to determine if they are valid; this is bad practice.
LSL makes it easy to check if a key is valid. Simply use the key as the parameter for a conditional.
That is, instead of if(uuid != NULL_KEY), use if(uuid). if(uuid) will only return TRUE if it is a valid key that is also not a null key.