Most likely you've something in the memo field that looks like empty but it's not. What ASC(mymemo) returns for it?

>I want to add a date to a memofield. If the field is empty I only add a date. If the field is not empty I do an alltrim on the content of the memo and then I add chr(13) and then I add a date.
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>It does'nt work for one of my memo fields. I have one empty line that should'nt be there.
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>I thought that SET MEMOWIDTH could help but it didn't change a thing.
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>Any thoughts?