FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Dan Wierenga
> 
> I'm having the same problem with Perl connecting to SQL 
> Server 2K via DBI and 
> DBD::Sybase.   If anyone has a solution for that I'd love to hear it.

The DBI documentation says that a driver may implement the ChopBlanks 
statement handle attribute, and that if it doesn't, it should return undef.  

AFAICT, DBD::Sybase doesn't do either of those things.  You can set the 
attribute, but it has no effect.  That is,

        $sth = $dbh->prepare($query);
        print $sth->{"ChopBlanks"} = 1;

doesn't alter whether or not the elements in the list returned by 
$sth->fetchrow are trimmed.  

However, DBD::Sybase treats char and varchar differently, in the expected 
way: char columns are blank padded; varchar are not.  

HTH.

--jkl










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