>I have never done a UDF in a report before. In the reportfield expression I would
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>DO smarttrim_it in smarttrim.prg with subdivsn, phase_unit, lot, block
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>Does that seem correct?
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>Brenda

Brenda,
You want to use it as a function- smarttrim(subdivsn, phase_unit, lot, block) - so it returns the value you want.