Varchar2 will not leave any trailing blank spaces.
Only Char field does.
See this example
Create table temp
( Co1 Varchar2(5)
Col2 Char(5)
);
Insert into temp
Values('KING', 'KING');
Select col1, length(col1), col2, length(col2)
from temp
COL1 LENGTH(COL1) COL2 LENGTH(COL2)
----- ------------ ----- ------------
KING 4 KING 5
Cheers
Fazal
--- Jon Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> use the rtrim function.
>
> rtrim(char[,set]) - char, with final characters
> removed after the last
> character not in set. set defaults to ' '.
>
>
> i.e.:
>
> update <table> set <field>=rtrim(<field>);
>
>
>
> Jon Baker
> Database Architect
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> Hi,
>
> What query can i run to to eliminate trailing
> whitespaces. e.g. i have
> 'abc ' and want to update the table so any such
> data is set without the
> whitespace, in this case 'abc'
>
> the fiels is varchar2
> 8.1.7.
>
> cheers
>
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