Check out VFP9 (and maybe in previous versions) Help for Set Ansi and you get a section that sez this:

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In the following example, when SET ANSI is set to ON, the result is False (.F.) because when padded, 'Tom' becomes 'Tom ', and the strings 'Tom ' and 'Tommy' do not match character for character:

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'Tommy' = 'Tom'


The == operator uses this method for comparisons in Visual FoxPro SQL commands.

In the following example, when SET ANSI is set to ON, the result is True (.T.) because the comparison stops after 'Tom':

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'Tommy' = 'Tom'
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Is this, like, really bad documentation or what? Or am I just plain dumb?