>Ricardo,
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>>- When the user enters "A" the instruction LEN returns 20 characters!!! Any idea?
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>LEN() of what? Fields in VFP are fixed length. If your field is 20 characters wide it is always 20 characters wide.

Jim of course, is correct. You may need to ALLTRIM() the value to determine the LEN() that you are apparently trying to seek.

Steve