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>>In a numeric case, I might look at the BINTOC() and CTOBIN() functions for creating the indexes. Should be more compact and faster.
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>I love this place. I would never have thought of BINTOC or CTOBIN's in indexing. Actually I can't recall ever using them. All my older systems were character based, now they are interger.
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>Thanks.

No problem. I would only use them in a compound index expression of two or more numeric values. But I got the idea from George Tasker. He's the brains on this. :-)

Bill