>>I imported data from excel to a table.
>>some fields have spaces on the left side. I replaced the field by ALLTRIM(field) but the left space did not go away as it should do.
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>>Then, I check for the LEFT(field,1) =" " but it failed. I can see the empty space but I don't know why VFP does not think it is a space. Any idea?
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>>Mo
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>It must be some unprintable character.
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>?asc(left(field,1))

It is ASCii 160. how to get rid of it? I tried STRTRAN() with TRIM() but it did not fix it.

Ooops. yes it worked. REPLACE field WITH alltRIM(STRTRAN(field,chr(160),""))