>>LTrim() will remove the leading blanks. LTrim(RTrim()) Will remove leading and trailing blanks.
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>Ok, using:
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>SELECT LTRIM(RTRIM(STR(YEAR(AddDate)))) FROM News
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>will work either in VFP or for SQL Server. However, this creates some extra spaces at the end of each field for that expression. I do however have the same in VFP. In order to avoid that, I have to use:
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>SELECT SUBSTR(LTRIM(RTRIM(STR(YEAR(AddDate)))),1,4) FROM News
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>which, of course, don't work in SQL Server. It must be too early for me here. What am I missing?

Hi Michel,

I don't see any extra spaces running that select. Anyway, you can try

SELECT STR(YEAR(AddDate),4) FROM News