Terry,

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

To illustrate, with Char(10) and VarChar(10) containing "1234":

? MyChar+"|"   && 1234      |
? MyVarC+"|"   && 1234|

Actually, there is a difference in the way they are stored in the DBF. They occupy the same space but the last character in the field is different for VarChar (if the value is shorter than the field length). In that case, it contains a hex for the actual length of the value.

For example, Char(10) and VarChar(10) in a table, put value "1234" in each. Open the DBF with MODI FILE and check the 10th character of each. The VarChar will have CHR(4) in the 10th character.