>>SYS(11) return a fixed lenght string C(7),
>>
>
>Are you sure?
>
>

>? LEN(SYS(11,'06/06/1998'))
>? LEN(SYS(11,{}))
>

>
>Thanks,
>Aleksey.

Alekesy,
instead of creating hundreds of messages in the various forums,
it would not be more intelligent to add to the VFP documentation
the list of the functions with varying length that VFP
doesn't it optimize?
When you have written the routine you have certainly created this table