>Hi All,
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> We are finally moving up to VFP8 (After our next release, VFP9). I am working with one table at the moment that has a lot of indexes. And I remember seeing here that you should not use alltrims in indexes. I have the following index, which is the longest and worst, that I should probibily fix:
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>  alltrim(reportedby)+alltrim(takenby)+alltrim(testedby)+alltrim(progname)+ ;
>    alltrim(catg_1)+ alltrim(catg_2)+ alltrim(catg_3)+ alltrim(catg_4)+alltrim(str(priority))
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>I think I can just either do a Padr() leave them alone for the fields that are characters already, but the last field (priority) is a numeric and I have it in about 10 other indexes floating around, not always at the end of the index.
> My question on that is do I do a padl() or a padr() on it?
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>Thanks.
>Beth

Beth,

For the char fields, a padr() may not be necessary, unless you want only a part of the char field, ie left(...)

For numerics, you want to padl(field, len, '0') to keep the numeric sequence