Probably it would help if I can reproduce the behavior. So if you wish you may send to me the table and code example.

>I'm sure the string lengths match (at least VFP is telling me so) I'm not sure that the index is some how currupt. But I have packed and reindex. I understand you want me to delete and rebuild. I'll try it. If you have any other thoughts please speak up. Thanks for your help so far.
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