I would **guess** that MLINE is returning a null string (i.e. zero length). Maybe a stray CR or LF or CR/LF as the first character?

You don't mention which version of VFP. Might be helpful to someone. Also, the setting for MEMOWIDTH.

good luck

>I inherited the support of an application that is being resold. One of the tables is userdata.dbf. The structure is: type (c,10) id (c,3) name (memo) data (c,50) ckval (n5.0) updated (date). The indexes are ID and USRINFO. USERINFO is a bit complicated. It has an expression MLINE(name,1) and a Filter ALLTRIM(UPPER(type))="USERINFO".
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>The problem only rises at times - I cannot pin down why, but all my attempts to recreate it have failed. I get Error loading file - record number 5. Baseform1 or one of its members. Loading form or the data environment : Error building key for index "C:\spm\data\userdata.cdx" tag "Userinfo". The error is not tied to a specific form, it gives me the executable line 426. Line 426 of the program that starts the application says Read Events. The lines leading up to this line are:
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>Close Data
>Close Data All
>CursorSetProp("Buffering", 1,0)
>Open Data spm2000 Shared
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>I am not sure where to start fixing this. I think it is all tied to the index, but I am not sure what to fix. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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>Thanks,
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>Randy