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

Yeah that would work if the field is small in size, but it will get a little cumbersome if the field grows in size.