The difference was that the date field in excel was stored as a date instead of text.

>>When importing from a csv file, the year portion of the dates are distorted. Example: 01/01/2009 come up as 01/01/0009. Is there a fix for this?
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>Works fine for me in the test below. How yours CSV is different?
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>TEXT TO lcStr NOSHOW
>"Date","String","Int"
>01/01/2009,"String1", 15
>12/25/2008,"String2", 23
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>ENDTEXT
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>STRTOFILE(lcStr, "temp.csv")
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>CREATE CURSOR Temp (fld1 D, fld2 C(30), Fld3 I)
>APPEND FROM "temp.csv" CSV
>LOCATE
>BROWSE NOWAIT
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