Gregory,
In my answer I only thought about character fields, for memo fields you must use LEN.
>Tore,
>
>The result is the same whether you use empty() or isblank()
>
>>Hi Fabio,
>>
>>Even though you don't like the way VFP handles these cases, it is not a bug, it is by design. This goes back to the dBase days, it is too late to change now. That is why VFP gave us the ISBLANK function.
>>
>>>
>>>Note that if the arguement of empty() is a Memo containing space(4), it will return FALSE whereas a char field of space(4) would return TRUE
>>>>>>
>>>This is a bug.