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From: timk@xenitec.uucp (Tim Kuehn)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Avoiding SET FILTER TO command
Summary: whitespace
Message-ID: <1989Aug2.135613.1707@xenitec.uucp>
Date: 2 Aug 89 13:56:13 GMT
Reply-To: timk@xenitec.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
Organization: Xenitec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON
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In article <61@cica.cica.indiana.edu> mr@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) writes:
>jbrown@herron.uucp (Jordan Brown) writes:
>>index on last+first to lf
>>seek "Brown           Jordan"
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^
>why is there whitespace between first and last names?  is this a
>tab?

Each record in a fixed-field size database such as implimented by 
dbase, if not filled by characters is "padded" on the right side by
blanks, which is where the spaces between "Brown" and "Jordan" come from.

>michael regoli
>mr@cica.indiana.edu 
>regoli@iubacs.bitnet
>...rutgers!iuvax!cica!mr

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