ESQL/C Question -- char or varchar columns padded?

Fellow Informix'ers, In ESQL/C, when you retrieve a column of type char or varchar, is the data padded with spaces at the end? Is there a way to retrieve NULL terminated strings like a normal C program would expect? Any and all responses appreciated, Raj. -- =============================================================================== __ __ . / __/ / Raj Malhotra. / ( /_ / voice : (908)613 4313. __/ email : manmetha@gauss.rutgers.edu ===============================================================================