>I have a field that has max of 7 chacaters, but I am only using 5 right now so I just alltrim my data as I save it to the field. I added an index to use rushmore on this field now it keeps adding in 2 extra spaces into each record of the entire table. Now when my user types in this number and my where statment and a scan for trys to compaire it doens't match. The strange thing is it is kind of intermitten. I tried to put a alltrim into the where statement, but that doesn't seem to work.
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VFP always uses fixed length fields (except for memos and generals). If you defined the field as seven characters, it will always be seven characters.