>>My table structure is code c(8),cdate d(10),type c(1)...)
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>>my index key is type+code+dtos(cdate)
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>>Is it possible to use this index only seek for first two charactor are match
>>for example: type = 1,code = K0008,Cdate = 01/02/2001, sometime i will seek index for whole string but occasionaly I use it to seek only the first two character. Is that possible to use this index to seek instead of create another index to seek....
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>>Sorry for my english. coding will be appreciated and thanks.
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>In your example..
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>If you wanted to seek for all the records with a type of 1 and a code starting with K
>=Seek("1K")
>As long as Set Exact is off this will work fine
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>HTH


Cetin beat me to it! <g>