With search engines the consensus was to use the quotes " " for this purpose....




>Hello Steve
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>I am not Allan, but I had the same requirement in an application I wrote years ago.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Comprende? :-)
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>>Allan,
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>>I'm curious...what do you plan to do with this information?
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>>>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.
>>>