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Article #7Re: BDP eating trailing spaces
From: john
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:19
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:19
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> I've looked in QC and don't see anything specific about this, but please > do enter something there in this area: > http://qc.codegear.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?da=4572 > > or could there be *some* trailing blanks but still with a total string > length less than the max defined field length? Yes this is the case. Ok I created bug report: Report #: 37941, thanks for the tip. > Personally, I do tend to trim such fields, or if I fail to do so, am happy > to get them back trimmed, so for me, I'm curious as to why the trailing > blanks are are actually important (not a criticism, I just can't imagine a > situation where I would ever actually want trailing blanks, so I'm > curious). > > Oh, and could you change your posting name from "news.borland.com" to > something else? Thanks. Sorry, that must have been the default posting name. The trailing blanks aren't really 'important' to preserve. Its just a problem of existing data and also I have to operate side by side with another application that I can't really modify or control. Why are the spaces in the data? I dont know, blame the users. :)
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X-Google-Thread: 1effeb,55aa26900fbb2200 X-Google-Attributes: gid1effeb,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: "john" <someone@no.no> Newsgroups: borland.public.delphi.database.bdp References: <4586daf5$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <4587fdf9$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <45881d02@newsgroups.borland.com> <4589592f@newsgroups.borland.com> Subject: Re: BDP eating trailing spaces Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:19:33 -0700 Lines: 26 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response NNTP-Posting-Host: 159.87.116.4 Message-ID: <45897066$1@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1166635110 159.87.116.4 (20 Dec 2006 09:18:30 -0800) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsgate.cistron.nl!xs4all!news2.euro.net!213.132.189.2.MISMATCH!multikabel.net!feed20.multikabel.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail