>Hi Fabio,
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>first of all, documented behavior is not a bug...! But, I also agree that it is not logical to let different field types give the same return value when it should be easy to give different values.
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>My guess is that since TYPE() and VARTYPE() mostly is used to check memory variables and properties, and not fields, it was low priority. Personally I ALWAYS use AFIELDS() for fields, I even wrote a FIELDTYPE() function many years ago, as a part of my standard function library.
>

Well,
then try to use the FoxPro.h T_VARCHAR definition with AFIELDS().

Fabio