>I tried ALLTRIM() with a string created with STR() and everything works as expected.
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>If you set a watch on TEST and ALLTRIM(TEST) and go into the command window and say TEST=STR(132), what does the debugger show you?
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>>I'm using VFP 5.0. And when I say tried, I mean days on the debugger, step by step, setting every variable into the watch window. As soon as i used LTRIM(),
>>it executed the way I had designed it.
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I ran that test like this:

? 132
TEST = str(132)
trim(TEST)
? TEST
alltrim(TEST)
? TEST
ltrim(TEST)
? TEST
rtrim(TEST)
? TEST

I got this display
132
(spaces)132
(spaces)132
(spaces)132
(spaces)132