thank you very much,
>Mohammed, I avoid using cmonth(), because the result is dependent on the runtime version installed. Specifically, cmonth() gives me the months in English, and I want them in Spanish. So, I create a personalized cMonth function, which I call MyCMonth(). Something like this:
>
>

>lparameters tnMonth
>
>* The following allows passing a date, or a number, as a parameter.
>if type("tnMonth") = "D"
>  tnMonth = month(tnMonth)
>endif
>
>do case
>case tnMonth = 1
>  return "January"
>case tnMonth = 2
>  return "February"
>...
>otherwise && Some wrong input, perhaps?
>  return "???"
>endcase
>

>
>Of course, my own version of the function returns the months in Spanish - I left them in English here, for clarity.
>
>>yes thank you,
>>
>>
>>>>thank you,
>>>>
>>>>is there away to get the month as feb,,jan, oct.... only
>>>>
>>>>>>hi all
>>>>>>
>>>>>>*** ActiveX Control Event ***
>>>>>>THISFORM.TEXT7.VALUE=TTOD(THIS.OBJECT.VALUE)&&result is 10/02/2008
>>>>>>
>>>>>>i need to convertit to 10-feb-2008
>>>>>>
>>>>>>thank you
>>>>>

>>>>>?Transform(THISFORM.TEXT7.VALUE,'@YL')

>>>
>>>AFAIK you must code it

>>>ldDate=THISFORM.TEXT7.VALUE
>>>?Transform(Day(lddate)) + '-' + Left(Cmonth(ldDate),3) + '-' + Transform(Year(ldDate))