--- In firebird-php@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lester@l...> wrote:

> > Personally, I don't use ADODB, but I assume some trim()'ing is going
> > on in there. Therefore, the results going through ADODB might be
> > different.
>
> ADOdb does give the trimmed string as you would expect - just mirroring
> the base functions thankfully ;)
>

That's exactly my point: Firebird VARCHAR()s can hold trailing spaces,
but they will be stripped off by the ADODB layer.

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Ard