>>I have a cursor with a date field in it. I need to save this cursor as a CSV file so..........
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>>COPY TO (myFile) CSV
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>>but........
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>>the date field is saved as MM/DD/YYYY and the user needs it in DD-MMM-YY format. Is there a reasonably easy way to make this format change???? (I've tried various SET DATE settings but didn't seem to get what I need)
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>>I haven't yet tried it (task for tommorrow or Thursday) but the next attempt is going to be
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>>save as XLS
>>open an instance of Excel
>>load the file (where it displays as desired)
>>and then SaveAs CSV from Excel
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>>Any thoughts on if this should work and/or suggestions for a better approach are appreciated.
>
>One way would be to create another C( 9 ) column ( "CharDate" ) in your cursor and populate it from the date field ( "MyDate" ) via a UDF:
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>REPLACE ALL CharDate WITH DD_MMM_YY( MyDate ) IN MyCursor
>
>* FUNCTION DD_MMM_YY
>LPARAMETERS ;
>	tdDate
>
>RETURN ;
>	PADL( LTRIM( STR( DAY( tdDate ) ) ), 2, "0" ) ;
>	+ "-" ;
>	+ SUBSTR( CMONTH( tdDate ), 1, 3 ) ;
>	+ "-" ;
>	+ RIGHT( LTRIM( STR( YEAR( tdDate ) ) ), 2 )
>

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

I had thought about that but, unfortunately, the user has a macro which depends upon certain data being in specific formats and specific columns.