Hi,

I'd like to make a trigger that would delete a lead record when the lead first name and last name are the same.  Here is what I have so far and I'm getting error message:

Apex trigger Test1 caused an unexpected exception, contact your administrator: Test1: execution of BeforeInsert caused by: System.SObjectException: DML statment cannot operate on trigger.new or trigger.old: Trigger.Test1: line 5, column 6

What do I need to change?

trigger Test1 on Lead (before insert) {
   for(Lead a: Trigger.new){
 if (a.firstname == a.lastname)
 try {
     delete a;
   } catch (DmlException e)
   {}
   }
  }

Thanks in advance!

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Hi,

I'd like to make a trigger that would delete a lead record when the lead first name and last name are the same.  Here is what I have so far and I'm getting error message:

Apex trigger Test1 caused an unexpected exception, contact your administrator: Test1: execution of BeforeInsert caused by: System.SObjectException: DML statment cannot operate on trigger.new or trigger.old: Trigger.Test1: line 5, column 6

What do I need to change?

trigger Test1 on Lead (before insert) {
   for(Lead a: Trigger.new){
 if (a.firstname == a.lastname)
 try {
     delete a;
   } catch (DmlException e)
   {}
   }
  }

Thanks in advance!