>>Dmitry, I may be proven wrong, but I think this will only fail when you set it to fail, that is, when you SET STRICTDATE TO 2.
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>Thank you, Antonio. I have a great respect for your knowledge and therefore doubt that you would be proven wrong.

Thank you, Dmitry, but VFP is so full of peculiarities that is not difficult to make an assertion that, for instance, an environment setting or a SYS() call would make it not completely generalizable. So, to be proven wrong is a VFP's developer second skin...