>>>>>Interesting naming convention
>>>>
>>>>Which?
>>>>
>>>>>Your original table has date in character format. When you produce CSV can you change it to date (use CTOD, if you want)?
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>Si ... don't understand. Thanks
>>>>
>>>
>>>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
>>
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>
>What you have in E field?

Well, a char representation of the date, e.g. "16-06-2006", as the result of the import from XLS.