Last reply had a typo....you can figure it out though...

>>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.
>>>
> 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