Scott,

Actually - that didn't work either but I got to thinking and the following got me what I want..
index on lastname+STR(VAL(SYS(11,newdDate))) tag nameDate

1) I had to add the val() to the code, because of the following:
? type(sys(11, date())) returns 'N'
? str(sys(11, date()))) returns error
? str(val(sys(11, date()))) returns a character correctly.
I don't know why I have to put the val() in, but it works...

Thanks
Robert


>scott