The ALLTRIM(), TRIM is ignored in the index, as I think J. Booth pointed out to me some years ago.
If you SET EXACT ON and SEEK ("Koziol") with an INDEX ON TRIM(Name), you get no match.
If you SET EXACT ON or OFF and have an index on ALLTRIM(Name) and do a
SEEK(PADR("Koziol",x)), assuming I added the right number of spaces, it IS found.
Don't ALLTRIM(), TRIM in INDEX expressions. It's pointless.

>Hi Charlie ---
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>No they are not; something else must be going on. For example, if I have an index on TRIM(lastname) and then SEEK "Koziol" there shouldn't be a problem. Perhaps you are using UPPER or LOWER in the index expression or in the SEEK expression?
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>>If I have an index on some field and the expression I'm searching for using SEEK() has leading or trailing blanks, I don't get a match. If I try an alltrim on the search expression and the index key, I still don't get a match. I appears that TRIM commands are ignored in index expressions.
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>>Charlie