RE: Trailing Whitespace

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From: Stephen W. Thomas (StephenWThomas_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:15:02 -0800

Hello.

I think the trailing white spaces are stripped off because they are the
default pad characters? In the past I have went the other way and wanted to
suppress the white space and other characters. I used default pad characters
to accomplish this.

Maybe try setting the default pad character to something (default is not set
to anything and is a space) that would not exist in the message, like “*” or
something like that. That might preserve the white spaces.

Let me know if that works.

Stephen W. Thomas
http://www.geekswithblogs.net/sthomas

"Ashish Shukla" wrote:

> Hi Gurus,
>
> I have a flat file coming into BizTalk. Each line will have a continuous
> string value in it. The line is not fixed length, i.e. the string in one line
> may only be 20 characters and in the other 22 and 40 in next and so on. This
> string also has trailing whitespaces in it. When I build a schema for this
> file I basically pickup the whole line in one element and process. Everything
> is fine except that the trailing whitespaces are stripped. Is there a way to
> suppress the stripping of trailing whitespaces.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Ashish Shukla

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