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  • From: "Gary D. Duzan" <gdd0 AT gte.com>
  • To: "Mike" <mpultz AT uniserve.com>
  • Cc: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Null terminated strings?
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:53:13 -0400


Sounds like you are using the release version. Try the CVS
version; it has some important things fixed.

Gary Duzan
GTE Laboratories



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<LYR103859-64001-2000.06.27-18.28.09--gduzan#gte.com AT franklin.oit.unc.edu> ,
"Mike" <mpultz AT uniserve.com> wrote:

=>I am using Freetds on a FreeBSD 3.4 machine. It connects to the database =
=>fine, but when it actually returns any values, the information is not =
=>correct. For example; it goes into the database a pulls a varchar field =
=>out that contains either Y or N (active or non active), when it returns =
=>the value, it show's only the "Y", but it's string length is 2. If I use =
=>the chop function (Perl), it chops the ending character (whatever it is) =
=>and then the script works fine. Is this simply null terminating strings =
=>when it returns them?
=>
=>here is some output from the script:
=>
=>Length=3D 2, Value =3D "Y"
=>FATAL: platid 1007 has impossible active value "Y". With Length 2 =
=>Aborting.




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