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Re: BDP eating trailing spaces

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From: john
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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