Preserve Trailing Space on Grid Value

[Jerry Fletcher]

Hello List,

I hope this is an easy one.

I have always worked around this in the past but I really want to know if there is a way to do this.
If I set a grid value = "WIDGET   "
When i read it back in using the iolist I seem to lose the trailing spaces.
Is there a way to preserve this? I have strip trailing spaces unchecked on Grid.

thanks

Jerry

[Devon Austen]

How are you reading it into a iolost?

READ DATA FROM g'RowData$ TO IOL=g'LoadIOList$

if so then the spaces are stripped because the grid iolist will be something like field1:CHR(sep)...

This means it is delimited and trailing spaces will be stripped.

If you look at g'RowData$ directly you will see the spaces are there it is converting them to the iolist where they are lost.

The best solution depends on what you want to do and your existing code but 'rowdata$ and 'value$ will both have the spaces.

[Jerry Fletcher]

Thank you for explaining it to me Devon,

The READ DATA FROM g'RowData$ TO IOL=g'LoadIOList$ has become kind of a coding standard with us.
So I will just continue with my workaround which is to store the data in base64 when I want to be 100% Certain about preserving the spaces.

Jerry.