Re: extra spaces
| From: | Brian Clark | Date: | Thu, 14 Dec 2000 22:49:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: extra spaces | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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Hello Soma,
(SI == "Soma Interesting") dfunct@telus.net writes:
SI> I'm using PHP & PostgreSQL.
SI> All values called from the database are still padded with extra
SI> spaces from the column size in the database. Is this normal - I
SI> don't remember this happening when I was using MySQL. I thought
SI> usually the database stripped the extra spaces when it retrieved
SI> the values.
SI> How do you recommend dealing with this, using a PHP command to
SI> strip every value from the database - or can I change something in
SI> the database to have it strip the spaces auto magic like?
I'd just use trim().
-Brian
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