Interactive Report "in" filters do not maintain trailling spaces
ant7Jan 7 2011 — edited Jan 10 2011I recently came across an interesting situation regarding interactive reports and "in" filters. When building the in list through the filter wizard, any trailing spaces in the column data is trimmed, which leads to inaccurate report results. This doesn't happen on a "=" filter, it seems limited to "in" filters.
I have an example here: http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=39226:1
If you click on the "=" filter you'll see the one record with the trailing space is properly displayed. Clicking on the "in" filter and no records are displayed.
In my particular case, the trailing space shouldn't have been in the data, so I was able to update the table and the filters worked, but if the trailing space was important then the "in" behavior would be troublesome.
Tony