[fpc-pascal] Trim db-fieldnames, or not?

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Fri Apr 18 22:06:33 CEST 2008



On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Joost van der Sluis wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> In several places you can specify a list of fieldnames, seperated by
> semicolons. For example: 'field1;field2'. Question is: should this be
> allowed: 'field1; field2'? Or should a "Field not found: ' field2'"
> exception occur? (Note the space)
> 
> Ie: should I add a trim(fieldname) to the code, or not? What do you guys
> think?

IMHO, no trimming should be added, because databases can have fields
with spaces. Weird, but true.

Michael.



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