Tore forgot rule #0: Never say Never :)
>So in rules 1 and 2, when you use the word 'Never', you didn't really mean Never, did you?
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>Oh, wait, I think you just inadvertently omitted a few words:
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>Never use alltrim() in an index expression ............ without using Padr to insure you end up with keys of the same length.
--sb--