>>>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.
>>>
>>>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?
>>>
>>>Mo
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>>It must be some unprintable character.
>>
>>?asc(left(field,1))
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>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),""))

You can also do the following:

REPLACE field WITH ALLTRIM(field,1," ",CHR(160))

*-* OR

REPLACE field WITH ALLTRIM(field,1,CHR(20),CHR(160))

Note: the double quotes contains a space.