>I've actually seen this:
>
>Assuming the "myfield" field is C(5)
>
>index on myfield tag myfield1
>index on substr(myfield,2) tag myfield2
>index on substr(myfield,3) tag myfield3
>index on substr(myfield,4) tag myfield4
>index on substr(myfield,5) tag myfield5
>
>select * from mytable where:
> myfield=SearchMe or;
> substr(myfield,2)=SearchMe or;
> substr(myfield,3)=SearchMe or;
> substr(myfield,4)=SearchMe or;
> substr(myfield,5)=SearchMe
>
>With descent results. It's clunky and inserts into the table will be slower because of all of the index updating, but... It works.

Just wondering, did you try having just one index on MyField, and using the LIKE relation, as in

select * from mytable where ;
myfield=searchme or myfield like "%"+searchme

Theoretically, this should be faster (and easier to maintain) than having five conditions and having VFP load five tags.