From 706f4ceac923bb386c31e6c8596c775441f7a863 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yuankui Li <liyuankui@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 10:23:00 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add a trick to handle null sql query results

---
 nulls.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/nulls.md b/nulls.md
index 274b450..7f24082 100644
--- a/nulls.md
+++ b/nulls.md
@@ -53,6 +53,22 @@ for rows.Next() {
 }
 </pre>
 
+Another trick to handle NULLs without using nullable types. 
+
+Use pointers.
+
+<pre class="prettyprint lang-go">
+for rows.Next() {
+	var s *string
+	err := rows.Scan(&amp;s)
+	// check err
+	if s != nil {
+	   // use s.String
+	} else {
+	   // NULL value
+	}
+}
+</pre>
 
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