>>Yes, this was my typo in the post. When I was testing the actual code, I had all parenthesis matching.
>>And I want to index this cursor on EMPL_NAME but the record with both EMPL_ID and EMPL_NAME blank should be at the top. I tried the following (but it gives error):
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>It should not give you an error then...
>Are EMPL_ID and EMPL_NAME the same lenght? Try (assuming ID is shorter than name)
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>INDEX ON IIF(EMPTY(EMPL_ID),padr(EMPL_ID, len(EMPL_NAME)), EMPL_NAME) TAG TAGNAME
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You are correct. The PADR() is what I was missing in the expression. Thank you!
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