>>As Perry said you can't have variable length indexes. AFAIK bytes 12-13 in index header keep key length. It should be fixed for a key. I don't have an idea how would fox index with trim() and first entry had only one char (I think it would be ignored and field size used).
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>My Educated guess is that the key lenght would be based on the contents of the first record in the table (recno()=1).
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>Alex
Just tried. Uses fsize()
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