TEXT TO lcx NOSHOW 1 10 2 03 1.1 12.R 1.1.R 1201.1.RBX.250.R.1 1201.1.R.250.R.1 1201.1.RBX.1.R.1 1.R 1.R.1 A B AA 5.R CDXB ENDTEXT &&lcx <pre> It will fail on the RBX;R;RRBX. The problem ist that a generic number of <i>dot+something groups</i> is hard without some loop. I think I will mix your code with the function approach. Thank you (_ _) ><PRE> >INDEX ON PADL(IIF(ISDIGIT(LEFT(ALLTRIM(item),1)),TRANSFORM(VAL(STREXTRACT(ALLTRIM(item),"",".",1,2)),"@L " + REPLICATE("9",LEN(item))),ALLTRIM(item)),LEN(item),"@") TAG anIndex >