Helen et al,

>>if you use AsString anywhere outside of the
>>OnCalculateField event it trims the field fine.

H> AsString reads a variant. Delphi doesn't have fixed length character types.

neither does it arbitrarily delete trailing spaces from strings or
variants, for that matter. :-)
I haven't tested, but I find it hard to believe that this sentence:

>>if you use AsString anywhere outside of the
>>OnCalculateField event it trims the field fine.

holds true for char fields. If it does, then IBO is doing something
wrong. I am curious about what Jason has to say about it.

Ciao
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