Hi Fabio,

after playing a little bit more I have

CREATE CURSOR test1 (c1 c(1),v1 v(1),v3v v(4) DEFAULT 'v ',v3e v(3),c3v c(3) DEFAULT 'v  ',c3e c(3),i I)
APPEND BLANK
COPY TO test1.txt DELIMITED WITH "" WITH CHARACTER "|"
MODIFY FILE test1.txt

My return is

 ||v ||v||0

I think the result is a wrong because
wrong use of CSV
csv is without trailing spaces. if we would have trailing spaces on an CSV file its mostly the same as a SDF, we would waste a lot of space for nothing
wrong use of types
VFP fieldtypes have no meaning in CSV so CHAR and VARCHAR should be stored in the same way.
the result is not consitent
some times we get spaces, sometimes not
the result is not consitent even if we consider that it may have different results for differnt VFP field types.
Character is sometimes trimmed and sometimes not
Varchar is sometimes trimmed and sometimes not
the result is missleading
for VARCHAR, why we get one trailing space if we have two in reality?
If we consider that the result will somehow show the VFP fieldtype than it does the wrong way
VARCHAR gets the trailing spaces and CHAR is trimmed

BTW:
COPY TO ... CSV generates the same result

Agnes