>>How do you convert this kind of date format 01-AUG-99 to 07/01/1999?
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>Subtract a month?
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>Kidding aside... something like this:
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lparameters tcDate
>lnDay=val(getwordnum(tcDate,1,"-/."))
>lnYear=val(getwordnum(tcDate,3,"-/."))
>lnMonth=int(atc(getwordnum(tcDate,2,"-/."), " JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC")/4)+1
>return date(lnyear, lnmonth, lnday)

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>...more or less. The month calculation may nead some tweaking before it works right.

This will not work in VFP 6 because it misses the getwordnum() function. Evelyn, it's about time to upgrade, you will be much more productive with VFP 9.