Mark,

STR() without a second argument creates a 10 character string.

>That's what I originally thought. If you look at the solution.app that comes with VFP it tells a different story; namely, that index sizes go in the following order:
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> Int = C(8) = str(Int) > N(8) > BINTOC(N(8)) = BINTOC(Int)
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>I just tried making all four indexes STR(Int) and it doubled the index size. Obviously, solution.app is wrong. Only BINTOC( , 1) or BINTOC(,2) would be an improvement over integer. Thanks for your help.