>>>>>>Revoked
>>>>>
>>>>>Set exact is no fun anymore.
>>>>
>>>>Odd error in FoxBin2Prg - but my assumption on SET EXACT was not right.
>>>>
>>>>I have a INDEX expression
>>>>

>>>>INDEX ON SYS(2007,UPPER(CALIAS))+SYS(2007,UPPER(FIELD_NAME)) TAG _FIELD COLLATE "MACHINE" ASCENDING
>>>>

>>>>This fails inside a TRY CATCH. the code stops in the CATCH (SET STEP TO)
>>>>Issued there in Command window, it runs.
>>>>
>>>>The code above returns strings of different length, so it might not be the best ever, but why from command line and not from prg?
>>>
>>>Padding the length doesn't help?
>>
>>Shure it does. To figure out where is even not that big a trick.
>>
>>The question is, why does it work the first place. Or why does it stop there.
>
>Because you just add two numbers.
>INDEX ON 8234445+7263482 TAG ...
>And with that sum you can have many values that are the same,

nope, its INDEX ON '8234445'+'7263482' TAG ...,
sys(2007 returns a string
the problem is, the string is not of constant length, and this should not work as index.