Sorry,
what I'm saying is that the after selecting to the cursor the leght of the field is 40, which is fine, that's what we want.
But when I open the cursor to browse the data the NAME field still is long, that is, I have to browse to the right to see the next field.


>The spaces are where? Aren't you saying the length is now 40?
>
>>with the PADR the lengh is 40, either selecting to cursor or table, but the spaces are there.
>>VFP 7 SP1
>>
>>>hmmm < scratching head >
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>>>What if you SELECT ... INTO TABLE, open the table and MODI STRUCT. What is the width then?
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>>>For the sake of completeness, what version of VFP and service pack? (Not that I'm aware of any differences).
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