>I am working with fields in a table, so for my purposes if there is even one '/' in the field, it's not numeric, so I fixed this by saying:
>
>

>do case
>case AT('/',x) > 0
>    *Do date processing
>case type(x) = 'N'
>    *Do Numeric processing
>otherwise
>    *Do String processing
>Endcase
>

What about 9-9-2009 ?