>Sergey,
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>If I use this index, forcing the truncation, it isn't in the proper order on the index, but after I call the Reindex
>

Index On ALLTRIM(Transform(numfld)) tag numflda

>Would this be a bug? or expected behaviour?
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Tracy,

VFP determines the lenght of the character expression index key for INDEX command using current record in the table. I don't know how it calculates it for REINDEX. In any case, using PADR() for the character expression index key makes it irrelevant.