How do I keep trailing spaces from being trimmed?

rsine

I am developing a program that requires me to read a string of data from
a text field in a database. Data is parsed from the string based upon a
starting position/length. If a piece of data doesn't meet the required
field length, then spaces are added, thus my issue. It appears VB.net
is trimming any trailing spaces. What should be a 250 character data
string is only 243 (less 7 trailing spaces). Is there a way to get this
to stop? I manually checked the data in the database counting the number
of characters and 250 was the correct.

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CJ Taylor

Is your data type in your database set to
VARCHAR or is it set to CHAR

VarChar will automaticlly trim spaces... char will pad..

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I am developing a program that requires me to read a string of data from
a text field in a database. Data is parsed from the string based upon a
starting position/length. If a piece of data doesn't meet the required
field length, then spaces are added, thus my issue. It appears VB.net
is trimming any trailing spaces. What should be a 250 character data
string is only 243 (less 7 trailing spaces). Is there a way to get this
to stop? I manually checked the data in the database counting the number
of characters and 250 was the correct.

-Thanks
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Nov 20 '05 #2

rsine

CJ,

It is an AS/400 database that I am connecting into via ODBC. I look at
the data in Access and everything is the right length. I am not sure if
there is something going on when I populate my dataset wherein it is
trimming trailing spaces when I do a .Fill or not. The following is the
code I am using:

Dim mOLEDBCommand As OleDb.OleDbComm and = New OleDb.OleDbComm and(sSQL,
mRemoteConnecti on)

mOLEDBCommand.C ommandTimeout = 60

'issue the SELECT command via SQLAdapter
Dim mOLEDBAdapter As OleDb.OleDbData Adapter = New
OleDb.OleDbData Adapter mOLEDBAdapter.S electCommand = mOLEDBCommand

'establish connection to remote database
mRemoteConnecti on.Open()

mOLEDBAdapter.F ill(dsRemoteDat aset, sRemoteEDIPF)

'close the connection
mRemoteConnecti on.Close()
Dim sData As String
sData =
dsRemoteDataset .Tables(sRemote EDIPF).Rows(EDI IndexPos).Item( "Data")

When I do a count of sData, the field has been trimmed.

I appreciate your help and welcome any further suggestions since this
has got me stumped.
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