Re: Problems with Blank space

Perl to strip trailing whitespace from a variable:
$name =~ s/\s+$//;

"Mitch Vincent" <mvincent%cablespeed(dot)com(at)interlock(dot)lexmark(dot)com> on 08/07/2001
03:26:31 PM

To: "Eric, Audet" <eaudet%scc(dot)ca(at)interlock(dot)lexmark(dot)com>,
pgsql-general%postgresql(dot)org(at)interlock(dot)lexmark(dot)com
cc: (bcc: Wesley Sheldahl/Lex/Lexmark)
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Problems with Blank space

Yes, if you're using fixed-length fields then the value is padded out to the
length that the field is fixed to :-)

I'm sure Perl has some facility for stripping NULLs off of strings, I
suggest using it here or changing the data type in PG...

Good luck!!

> I am not sure if this is a database issue or a DBI::Pg issue.
>
> When I do a select * from tablea .... all fields specified as fix length
> text field ... return the data with blank space.
>
> Example:
> "Eric" returns "Eric****************" where * are blank spaces.
>
> Is this normal?
>
> Eric
>

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