This variable controls whether blanks are trimmed from the right side
of string values returned by sql select calls. The default is t. Blanks are typically added when you insert in the
database a string containing fewer characters than are specified for
the location. Suppose, for example, a column has a type char(6) and
your string is "foo". You may get back
"foo "
(i.e. with three added blanks).
Sometimes, however, you may want to see the full string including the
blanks, in which case you can set this variable to
nil. But note that
some databases always trim strings in this way before passing them to
the AODBC interface. In such cases setting
*auto-trim-strings* to
nil will have no effect.
See aodbc.htm for more information on Allegro ODBC.
The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.
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Created 2000.10.5.