>How do you strip spaces out from a field value.
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>alltrim(thisform.myfiled.value).. the value is 'modem'
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>when I say..
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>myvar = alltrim(thisform.myfiled.value)
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>myvar is 'modem' but is has two more spaces in it.
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>should have 5 spaces, but it has 7 spaces.
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>what to do?

Come on, ALLTRIM will always trim all heading and trailing spaces.