>>Yes I totally agree, but the issue is not about what are the best coding pratices but why it runs fine in earlier versions and not in VFP9. Remember that these are legacy apps and it is not my client's intention to upgrade the much of the underlying code.
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>Hi Joe,
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>The handling of indexes has been changed in VFP9 to avoid situation where code seems to be working but my produce incorrect result in some circumstances. Check new section Considerations for Creating Index Expressions in VFP9 help for more details.

Thanks Sergey,

That makes sense.

Joe