Is MSSQL, the ODBC Driver or Win32::ODBC introducing the NUL values?
I don't know, but MS-SQL you say? Is there any reason not to use DBI with DBD::ODBC? I don't know anything about Win32::ODBC, but I do know that I've used DBI with MS-SQL to great effect. If it's feasible, you might give this a shot. All things considered, having to clean the data is somewhat undesirable (though I'm sure someone will chime in with the fact that data from the database is marked as tainted, etc). Numbers should come back as numbers, not numbers with a NUL appended...

thor

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In reply to Re^7: Avoiding Strange Win32::ODBC Return Values for Integers by thor
in thread Avoiding Strange Win32::ODBC Return Values for Integers (NUL) by jonix

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