>>Looks like VFP may think that country 115 is a number and is adding the first digit from the code to that number so that;
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>>m.country + m.code = 118 (115 + 3)
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>>Try this and see if it helps;
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>>seek(TRANSFORM(m.country) + TRANSFORM(m.code),"table","IDX")
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>Wouldn't seek()ing on a number in a character tag raise a "datatype mismatch" error?
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>BTW, a colleague of mine always read that as "datatype mishmash" :).

Me too (and many Bulgarians also), because we have a MishMash meal prepared with scrambled eggs and vegetables :-))