>I have an application that needs a compound index built. The fields are all string fields, but the user would like the second field to be in descending order. Is there a good way to do this in VFP?
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>TIA

How long is this field and what kind of information is in it? Are they only ASCII chars from A to Z? If so you may try
str = 'ABC'
NewStr = CHR(155-ASC(SUBSTR(upper(str),1,1)))+CHR(155-ASC(SUBSTR(upper(str),2,1)))+CHR(155-ASC(SUBSTR(upper(str),3,1)))

but this looks like a very complicated solution. I'm sure there is more elegant using bitshift operations...