>Or even simpler, since getwordnum() in fact does the alltrim for you
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>Really? My testing does not show this to be the case.
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>On my machine:
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>?LEN( GETWORDNUM( ID(), 1, [#] ) )
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>gives me 12
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>?LEN( ALLTRIM( GETWORDNUM( ID(), 1, [#] ) ) )
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>gives me 11

Yes, you're right. Bummer! I normally don't use the second parameter, and then I have found that alltrim() is not necessary. So I was sure the same thing would apply if you changed the word separator. However, I realize that VFP's behavior makes sense.