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<leading>

The keycompress leading option indicates to compress the leading characters of key values. It is indicated when there is significant leading character duplication among the key values.

Accepted Values

Value

Effect

Synonyms

yes

Turns on leading key compression.

y, true, on, 1

no

Turns off leading key compression.

n, false, off, 0

This option can be specified when the <keycompress vlennod> attribute is disabled:

<keycompress vlennod="no"><leading>yes</leading></keycompress>

Examples

The following example turns on only leading key compression:

<keycompress>

<leading>yes<leading>

</keycompress>

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