>John uses vfp6, so your advice is best. In vfp9, the TRIM function can be used to remove other trailing characters too, so not only spaces.
I am grateful for the tip; I didn't know this part.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
