David,

> >David, how would you like an AsRawString property? This would be a way to
> >explicitly have the trimming rules ignored regardless of what the

settings

> >are. Then this would become the divider between the "interactive"
> >application and the "non-interactive" application.
>
> Sounds like a great idea, as a matter of fact! That way, it keeps happy

the

> developers who sometimes (like me) need to know that what gets put in is

in

> fact what gets given back, spaces and all. Although IBO is not to blame
> (because we weren't using it then, and the RDBMS wasn't InterBase), we

have

> had a lot of trouble with databases or database components munging our
> spaces, and had to resort to wrapping ".AsString" calls with a kludge like
> "FixDBStr". We could only do that because in each case we knew the

expected

> size of the string and could hence right pad with the required number of
> spaces. The situation for others might be more difficult.

Ok, consider AsRawString a feature soon to be added.

Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com