Just use a char datatype and the spaces will remain.
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Phillip Beazley

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Michael Kear <[email protected]>
wrote:

> This might seem a dumb way to do it,  because it's not using any of the
> database features or switches,  but you could add a character at the end
> when you insert it.    Say 'Z'.    That would leave your spaces intact as
> being inside the field's contents.  Then when you retrieve the value, just
> strip off the trailing 'Z'.  
> Cheers
> Mike Kear
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maureen [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2013 6:58 AM
> To: sql
> Subject: Re: retaining trailing space characters in sql data
> There is a setting called SET ANSI_PADDING
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316626
> If that doesn't work for you, I would store the REGEX with a special
> delimiter at the end after any trailing spaces, and just strip the delimiter
> off before using the expression.
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Michael Dinowitz
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I have a database of regular expressions and I've had a problem when 
>> trying to save expressions that contain trailing space characters 
>> (such as a new line). Is there a switch in MSSQL that I can set to 
>> keep the space characters?
> 

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