>This will work until... it won't work anymore! :)) If you really need to alltrim all those values, pad the result to a fixed length (greater than any possible length). Use the same pad length for both the index creation and seek. (Because VFP uses fixed length index keys.)
You're right, it may be why he's already having trouble :)
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and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.
