Are you sure that it's space? What do you get from

? ASC(SUBSTR(ALLTRIM(lcImageName),2,1))

>Michel, you need to add SP2 to the drop down for Version for VFP.
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>Okay, I am having the most strange what I call Halloween code. I cannot understand it. I really think this computer, or program, is possessed. :)
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>I keep trying to strip the SPACES off of a variable to get down to the one character that remains. When I ALLTRIM() it, you'd think the spaces would be gone, but they are not, or so it would seem. When I do the following code, I see only the letter J.
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>lcImageName=ALLTRIM(lcImageName)
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>However, when I try to find out the length of the variable, also ALLTRIMMED, I see the length as a 2.
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>lnLength=LEN(ALLTRIM(lcImageName)
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>Now, I tell you, that length should only be 1, but it comes out as 2 and when I concatenate another string to it, there is literally a space after that letter "J", even though I ALLTRIMMED it. Now, can anyone tell me why this happens, right before Halloween?