>Thanks for the heads up. It is a good point.
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>After reading your comment I checked Craig Boyd's vfpencryption71.fll library which includes a HASHRECORD() function somewhat similar to SYS(2017) that offers seven secure hash algorithms that go from 16 to 64 *bytes* in length. Good enough for me in this case. I picked 32 bytes in length.
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>Alex
I assume using the value itself - the concatenation of the key fields - would be too long? (If it is the ENTIRE record you need to compare, then a has makes more sense.)
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