>I have another field that I alltrim that doesn't have a index in the same table and it only saves the exact number of characters that was typed in. I read about the problem with alltrim not working in a where statement but is says it was fixed in vfp 3.0b I am using vfp5.
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> Thanks Kelly

A character field will always save the length of the defined field. Always. The only variable length fields in VFP are memo and general.