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INDEX ON....IIF(x,'ASCENDING','DESCENDING')
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Visual FoxPro
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Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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Thread ID:
00350533
Message ID:
00350572
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>I'm trying to create an index that will internally change back and forth between Ascending and Descending depending on the value of a field.
>
>Let's say I have a table with the following fields and values.
>
>cValue AorD
>01 A
>02 A
>03 D
>04 D
>05 A
>06 A
>07 D
>08 D
>
>I want to index on cValue Descending but internally cValue would be subIndexed as either Ascending or Descending depending on the value of AorD so that the final index would produce the following result.
>
>cValue AorD
>01 A
>02 A
>04 D
>03 D
>05 A
>06 A
>08 D
>07 D
>
>Can anyone think of a way to do this even using UDFs if needed?
>
>Ed

Maybe you could have all your "D" type records be negative values (at least for your index)?
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP

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