>>Fabio,
>>I didn't say SDF is same or simply SDF, I said "sort of SDF".
>
>Right. I don't want to be discourteous,
>"sort of SDF" it doesn't exist.
>
>In our discussion, there are three types of files:
>1 SDF
>2 delimited not trimmed
>3 delimited
>
>You call 2 = "sort of SDF", but the only thing that can be said is that "it is not a sdf".
>
>>PS: Why are you testing with varchar?
>
>It is a field,
>and with this example I (try) show you that
>there is no motive to remove the final spaces in a delimited text,
>in fact,
>the VFPT's developer that has implemented "COPY TO" for the fields varchar in VFP9
>has not removed the spaces
>
>>In VFP there is not true varchar, is there?
>
>on a VFP application the varchar is a true ( as it has to be ) varchar,
>it is the allocation in the dbf and an index that are not varchar.
>
>>Cetin
>
>Fabio

Gulp, I always misunderstood varchar then. Mistakenly I was thinking it meant variable length char.
Cetin