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Subject: Re: Zeros in text (was: FAQ: Re: V4RB 1.9.1b11)
Author: Ruslan Zasukhin
Posted: 2002/05/28 00:10:55
 
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on 5/27/02 23:37, Charles Yeomans at yeomans /AT/ desuetude D.O.T com wrote:

> I think that the prohibition on using Chr(0) has been discussed on the
> list before. But I agree that you should be allowed to use Chr(0) in
> the data of a VText field, if only because otherwise it's possible that

No, Charles.

ZERO MUST NOT present in TEXT.

Because TEXT field also do indexing.
And any other TEXT functions, e.g. In BaseObject methods.

BTW, I am not sure that methods will not work right now with such bad TEXT.

> GetDataSize would return a different value when a VText object is cast
> as VBlob -- and this is surely a bad thing.

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