Name
CHAR
Syntax
CHAR(size) [BINARY]Size
Specified by the size value in a range of
to 255 (1 to 255 prior to MySQL 3.23)
Storage
size bytes
Description
A fixed-length text field. String values with fewer characters than the column’s size will be right padded with spaces. The right padding is removed on retrieval of the value from the database.
CHAR(0) fields are useful for backward
compatibility with legacy systems that no longer store values in the
column.
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