Terry,

>>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.
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>>Thanks,
>>Aleksey.
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>So whats the diff between a varchar DBF field and a char DBF field?

You see the difference when you make use of the fields and don't have to TRIM, for instance.