>Yeah, a bad habit it may be. That said, I had not seen an index on bintoc() fail neither, until yesterday
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>Seems like I may be in for a change of habit after all, (I'm assessing the changes currently), until the index on Integer fails one day
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>Still, I wonder, if bintoc() index fails under certain circumstances, there's a probability that an integer index will just as well. I'm just curious as to why and under what circumstances
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I'm not sure 100%, but this is correlate with the CHR(0)
( C++ nullString endtag ) and the index string COMPACT routine.

If you define index with last key char = CHR(0) character, you can to meet this bug