> My understanding of "BLANK" was the equivalent of EMPTY()

Dave, then if I have FIELD1+CHR(13)+' '+CHR(13)+FIELD2 then shouldn't the output look like:

FIELD1
FIELD2

I would consider the ' '+CHR(13) to be EMPTY() since VFP returns .T. from EMPTY(' '+CHR(13)). But when I test that out I get:

FIELD1

FIELD2