>They are not variable but fixed lenght fields where value is paded with binary zeros to the lenght of the field.
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Hi Sergey,

I just want to clarify that, even though Varchar field is a fixed length field in DBF, the values stored in the field are variable length values and they are not padded to the length of the field. The unused space in the field is filled with spaces rather than with binary zeros.

Thanks,
Aleksey.