>>How can I determine whether a date is DMY or MDY? For instance, if I have a date that is formatted as follows: 01/02/48
>>The field in my table is a date of birth field and is a character field. Does anyone have any code written that will tell me whether the 01 is a month or a day. The same goes for the 02 portion of the field.
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>to determine wether if in 01/02/48 is 1st feb 1948 or 2nd jan 1948 you could add 31 days to 01/02/48 and see which part of 01/02/48 increased. Is that an idea?

How do you add 31 to a string ? :-}