>>

>>mymonth = 'APR' (or any)
>>WAIT WINDOW CHRtran(mymonth,'JAN,FEB,MAR,APR,MAY,JUN,JUL,AUG,SEP,OCT,NOV,DEC','01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12')
>>

>>
>>the above code obviously does not work. What does? thanks, Randy
>
>If you need to do this a lot, I suggest creating a cursor or table to hold the data and using a look-up.
>
>Tamar


i use:

(AT(lcMonth,"JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC ")-1)/4