Probably there is quite seldom a need for verbatim=1 to disable the space-stripping because such data - where it makes a significantly difference to consider the spaces - isn't very common at least not by storing data within databases. Within a batch-controlled output from database content into txt-files it's not so rarely that they use fixed lengths and filling missing chars with spaces but such files are usually loaded with a fix file-format taking the whole record and picking from there the needed fields directly with appropriate from-to statements or with the various string-functions.
This variable belonged to the system-variables and are probably not really common in smaller projects but within advanced environments the use of the include- and hide-variables is not seldom.
- Marcus
