James Goldbloom wrote in a message to Michael Quinlan:
 JG> You obviously did not test your theory.  I just did, and it
 JG> stripped the variable beautifully of the spaces.  No need to
 JG> declare a second variable with slows down the process, uses memory,
 JG> etc., etc.  Matter of fact, it's sloppy programming.
My experience with this was with a variable defined in a TYPE statement.  To 
verify my past results I wrote a NEW test program as follows:
TYPE test
   a as STRING * 10
END TYPE
dim b as TEST
dim c as STRING * 10
b.a = "12345"
c = "12345"
b.a = RTRIM$(b.a)
c = RTRIM$(c)
print "["+b.a+"]"
print "["+c+"]"
The results I get on screen are:
[12345     ]
[12345     ]
 JG> Sorry, Michael.  No offense taken I hope, but you're quite wrong on
I take no offense at someone pointing out what they think is an error on my 
part.  But since my test gives the results I expected, there must be 
something wrong with my test.  So, what's wrong with my test?
 JG> this stuff, all around.  I had to clarify something so blatantly
 JG> off, so as not to confuse new users to PB about bad programming
 JG> habits.  Surely you will see other replies from other users, stay
 JG> tuned unfortunately. 
The last thing I want is to stear someone wrong, or for someone else to do 

Michael
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