Does Varchar(x) count white space?

Question

I am looking for a cut and dry answer. I have seen posts that say it doesn't count ending white space or some say it doesn't count leading white space.

example "if this was the example" would this be a varchar(19) or varchar(23)?

Answer 1

VARCHAR(23), since space also needs to be stored for the sentence to stay the same.

Answer 2

The simple answer is Yes it accepts white spaces. And the output is varchar(23)

Answer 3

varchar's can take into account spaces, so yes it does need varchar(23).