Lookup matching problem

[Jaime Perry]

Hello,

I am in the process of copying data from an existing Filepro system to 
our in house Filepro based software.  To do this, I am doing a lookup 
from the old file to our file.  Both files have item # as the key 
field.  Ours is defined as (15,allup) and the original is defined as 
(14,allup).   My lookup looks like this:    lookup new = (fn)  k=ky   
i=A -nx
 
FN is defined so it can handle inputed qualifiers and index A is built 
on item # with a length of 15. The item number is the first field in 
both files and ky is defined as (15,allup).  

The problem is for item #   DDJNR-2020J-15.  When it hits this item, it 
thinks the item already exists (which it does not).  If I ask what my 
key is (ky), I get the above number left justified with a blank at the 
end.  But, if I ask what new(1) is, I get DDJNR-2020K-15 also left 
justified with a space at the end.  I originally used field 1 in the 
lookup but thought the length differences might be causing the problem 
so I switched to sticking the item # in ky to make them equal.  This 
made no difference.  For the life of me, I cannot figure why it thinks 
this is a match.  Any suggestions would be great.

Thank you
Jaime Perry