>>I've read in VFP documentation that bintoc function may be used to reduce size of indexes. I've tested without success: bintoc(1) returns the same string than bintoc(2), 3, 4 etc. So how can be used to order records?
>>What i'm forgeting?
>>Thanks
>Nope. When you say the same string, how are you examining it? By simply: ? BINTOC(1), ? BINTOC(2). Try ? BINTOC(1) = BINTOC(2).

George,

? bintoc(1) = bintoc(2) returns me .T.
? bintoc(1) == bintoc(2) returns me .F.

i have 'set exact' to on

but, what i'm looking for is the possibility of using this on index tag:
I've tested this code:

create cursor prueba (numero i)

insert into prueba values (4)
insert into prueba values (3)
insert into prueba values (6)
insert into prueba values (5)

index on bintoc(numero) tag orden
set order to orden
browse

the records appears in the order of introducing.

I've tried too this:

? seek(bintoc(1), "prueba", "orden") returns .t.
? seek(bintoc(6), "prueba", "orden") returns .t.
but record pointer always remains in 1.

Which is my error?
Thanks