What are the types of the fields? If the fields are integer, you can use BINTOC function.

>Well, I have approached this from several vantage points to get the line item numbers
>in numeric order, but they do not come out okay when I make my index as follows:
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>INDEX on PADL(ALLTRIM(STR(groupid)), "") + PADL(ALLTRIM(STR(quoteid)), 4, " ") + ;
>   PADL(ALLTRIM(STR(lineitem)), 4, " ") TAG gqteline
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>Example: The numbers for the column called LineItem just don't go into any order.
>I even padded spaces in, but that didn't fix it.
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>GROUPID  QUOTEID  LINEITEM
>1               1               2
>1               2               1
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>How do I get the numbers to come out like this in the index expression?
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>GROUPID  QUOTEID  LINEITEM
>1               2               1
>1               1               2
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>Maybe I need to leave out the QuoteID? I'll try that.
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>Cecil answering Cecil's question: "Yes, that works just fine, Cecil. Good job!" See below:
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>INDEX on groupid + lineitem TAG grpqteline
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