Re: READ command in SQR 3 vs. 4

[Albert Howard <starbukk@concentric.net>]

Read the entire record into one variable and use a let $var = substr(...)
command populate the individual fields. Then you get everything.

At 07:37 AM 9/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>In SQR Ver 3.0 the manual states when using the READ command, "after being
>transferred, trailing blanks in the variable are omitted".  This is causing
>me some heartburn as I need to preserve all the characters in the file that
>I am reading in.  Does this same problem occur in SQR Ver 4?  Has anyone
>else hit this problem and developed a workaround?  I thought of using the
>length function but I don't know how long the string should be in order to
>determine if the blanks have been removed.  Thanks in advance for your
>help.
>