FreeTDS Development Group

["William" <w1234 AT prmail.net>]

Hello everyone, 

I'm using Perl 5.6.1, DBI-1.30, DBD-Sybase-0.94, Nightly Snapshot of FreeTDS, 
RH 7.3. 

In perl I do: 


$rows = $sth->dump_results;

and the output is: 


DBI:Sybase:database=staff
SELECT NAME FROM STAFF
'Admin............................'
'JAlvarez.........................'
'Rosa.rez.........................'
3 rows

The column NAME in STAFF is defined as VARCHAR(40) 

The values returned from the query all have a null character attached to the 
end of the field value plus extra characters from the previous row. 

I was expecting: 


'Admin'
'JAlvarez'
'Rosa'

To get what I expected I clean up the query results by stripping everything 
after the first null. 

The same query with Perl 5.6.0, DBI-1.16, DBD-Sybase-0.91, Nightly Snapshot 
of FreeTDS-0.52, RH 7.1 worked as expected. 

Why are my query results different with the new versions? 

Thanks in advance, 

William