Hello Steve

I am not Allan, but I had the same requirement in an application I wrote years ago.

I wanted my customers to be able to enter text to search for in my products database, and I needed to see if they had put in any leading or trailing spaces.

For instance if my customers had entered 'cap' they would find 'cap', 'capasitor' and capstan', but if they had entered 'cap ' they would only find 'cap'. And if they entered 'tan' they would find 'tantal' and 'capstan', if they entered ' tan' they would only find 'tantal' if it was word number more than 1.

Comprende? :-)



>Allan,
>
>I'm curious...what do you plan to do with this information?
>
>>IMHO, it seems like a very basic requirement to know the length of the user input.
>>I find it hard to believe that after all these years and versions of VFP that it is not available as a simple function.
>>