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Varchar data length
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From
18/03/2005 06:22:40
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
 
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18/03/2005 05:49:22
Steve Buttress
Steve Buttress Software Consulting
Bloomington, California, United States
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP1
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00997157
Message ID:
00997165
Views:
12
>I have a Varchar field as the control source for a combo. The rowsource is an array where the contents are pulled out of a device. The field needs to be identical to the device, including trailing spaces if any.
>
>For a Textbox, the documentation instructs use of an "F" in the format property to keep the value from being padded. This doesn't seem to work for a combo.
>
>Is there a way to get the combo to save the exact length?

Steve,
I haven't seen VFP9 yet but as far as I know from SQL server a varchar field doesn't have trailing spaces.
Cetin
Çetin Basöz

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