>>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 ?

May be

case type(x) = 'N' and empty(chrtran(x,'1234567890.',''))
   * Do numeric process