>It is false, also if first record is NULL,empty or another string or memo field.
>
>
>CREATE CURSOR mcur ( a c(1) null)
>INSERT INTO mcur VALUES (null)
>SELECT LEFT(a,212) f1 FROM mcur INTO CURSOR pippo
>? FSIZE('f1','pippo')
>>
>If you analize VFP indexing, you found this:
>
>VFP not support variable lenght index keys.
>
>
>INDEX ON cField TAG tag1
>INDEX ON RTRIM(cField) TAG tag1
>
>have equal key set.
>
>Fabio
I assume VFP will index with a minimum length of 1 in this case.
In the past, problems have been reported when selecting or indexing variable-length fields. A command like:
select alltrim(FullName)...
will apparently take the length of the first record it finds to determine the total length. This is not necessarily the maximum length.
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