FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: ZIGLIO Frediano [mailto:Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com]
> Sent: August 11, 2003 9:58 AM
> > 
> > Have you found a solution for 
> > "turn off padding of CHAR with spaces" 
> > (https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/freetds/2002q3/009012.html
> 
> The solution depend from type and from library. dblib return CHAR
> padded. This is the correct behavior. To remove spaces use RTRIM in
> query or VARCHAR type.

See the documentation for dbbind().  The bindtype NTBSTRINGBIND produces an
unpadded, null-terminated string.  I don't know what PHP uses internally,
though.  

--jkl
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