>>Is there a simple way to convert this:
>>

>>"2002/01/23"
>>

>>to this?
>>

>>"01/23/2002"
>>

>>It actually starts out as this:
>>

>>"20020123"
>>

>>If that matters.
>
>How about

>ab="20020123"
>SET CENTURY on
>SET DATE american
>? CTOD(TRANSFORM(ab,"@R ^9999-99-99"))

How can I work that into this?

NewFormatValue = EVALUATE("ALLTRIM(TRANSFORM(CHRTRAN(FormatValue,CharactersToStrip,''), '@R ####/##/##'))")

Where FormatValue is:

"20020123"

I'm not trying to get the date, but rather the text value.