On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 01:10 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
> on 5/27/02 23:37, Charles Yeomans at yeomans At desuetude D.OT 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.
>
>
With a bit more reflection, I agree -- no Chr(0) in VText fields.
Charles Yeomans
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