>>>Interesting naming convention
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>>Which?
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>>>Your original table has date in character format. When you produce CSV can you change it to date (use CTOD, if you want)?
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>>Do you mean IntermTable? That has just been created by importing the XLS. How can I use CTOD() in that process?
>>I had no initial input in the production of the XLS/CSV, but had to reformat it somewhat to get it to feed to this program.
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>>Si ... don't understand. Thanks
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>I guess, I misundertstood you originally. Ok, your intermTable is from Excel, which explains strange names for the fields.

What strange names? They're just field names as any other.

>And in your IntermTable dates are in C format, correct?

Correct - the XLS date field yields a char date field in IntermTable

>What do you receive when you convert these dates back to date? Of they already come wrong?

Replace	Operator	with tnOperator, ;	
         ...
  	Date with CTOD( m.E), ;
         ...

is in the code (as I posted). This is what yields dd/mm/1920 in the result FB1.DBF

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>Thanks.