It will shows Page 1, because when the expression is evaluated the _pageno = 1 :o( no metter how many pages are involed after that.
>Hello Bo,
>
>I tried your suggestion but it didn't work. It still keeps showing page one for all the index entries even though the report goes over 3 pages. For example, the following entry is in the memo field but appears on page two of the report: James LANHAM<
> (The backslash is there to separate the first and last names)
>
>To try and get this working, my Report Expression was
>>TEXTMERGE(memo)
>
>where 'memo' is the name of the memo field.
>
>The eIndex Function has
>>FUNCTION eIndex(lcName)
>
> lcFName = LEFT(lcName,AT("/",lcName)-1)
> lcLName = SUBSTR(lcName,AT("/",lcName)+1)
>
> APPEND BLANK IN decindex
> REPLACE name WITH lcLName + "," + lcFName IN decindex
> REPLACE page WITH ALLTRIM(STR(_pageno)) IN decindex
> REPLACE fname WITH lcFName IN decindex
> REPLACE lname WITH lcLName IN decindex
>
> RETURN ""
>ENDFUNC
>>
>Does using a table field name cause a problem? Will this only work with a character variable?
>
>Regards...Rex
>
>>Rex,
>>
>>Look at the TEXTMERGE function. It should do what you want:
>>
>>Put the expression "TEXTMERGE(cText)" in your report field and...
>>
>>>>cText = "...in the house where John Smith <<index('John Smith')>> grew up there is..."
>>
>>FUNCTION Index(cName)
>> ? cName, _PAGENO
>> RETURN ""
>>ENDFUNC
>>
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