C#/ADO adding spaces to varchar??

[Rene]

Hi,

I'm reading a table with fields of varchar type and the
DataReader["MyField"].ToString returns the field padded with spaces upto the
maximum length. In QA select len(MyField) returns a different length for
each field and for sure I ran an update with RTRIM() for each row.

I'm using SqlDataReader.

TIA,

Rene

 

[William Ryan eMVP]

Hi,

I'm reading a table with fields of varchar type and the
DataReader["MyField"].ToString returns the field padded with spaces upto the
maximum length. In QA select len(MyField) returns a different length for
each field and for sure I ran an update with RTRIM() for each row.

I'm not sure I understand the problem. Are you saying that with a Reader
the lenght of the field returned with DataReader.GetString["MyField"] is 50
or some other constant that's equal to the field lenght? I've done this a
bunch and just ran another test and I'm getting only the lenght of the
field. Perhaps you have spaces contained in the field itself. Anyway, let
me confirm the problem before we look at a solution.

I'm using SqlDataReader.

TIA,

Rene

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[Patrice]

Are you sure this is a varchar column ? Would look rather like a char
column...

Patrice