>I have a table where I need an index tag with the first character field in accending order and the second field which is a date in descending order. In VFP3 and VFP5 the following tag worked fine.
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>INDEX ON location + STR({01/01/2020}-date_samp,8,0) tag location
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>If I use this tag created by VFP5, VFP6 states that the index file does not match the table.
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>If I re-create the tag in VFP6 it acts ok but the tag does not sort at all.
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>Is this a bug?
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>Is there a better way to do this anyway?
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>Thanks,

David,

This may be related to teh SET STRICTDATE and the Y2K stuff that is in VFP6.

Try using this as the index expression;

INDEX ON location + STR({^20200101}-date_samp,8,0) tag location