I don't know why you're getting a NUL (ASCII character 0) in your output, but here's how we can get rid of it: 
my $nul = chr(0);
$value =~ s/$nul//g;

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I would suggest that for all of the values coming out of the database; it's pretty likely that you don't want NULs in your output.

thor

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In reply to Re^5: 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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