Re: VARCHAR comparison problem

[Paul DuBois]

At 11:01 PM -0600 1/20/01, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>At 06:34 PM 1/20/01 -0800, Jeremy D. Zawodny wrote:
>>MySQL does trailing whitespace removal on all VARCHAR data as
>>described in the manual.
>
>Hmm, well that presents a problem in my application that counts on 
>exact comparisons - I guess a way to do it is to use 'like' instead 
>of '='?

You might consider using one of the TEXT types.  Trailing space removal
isn't used for those types.

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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped