Not a problem. Thank you for trying to help.

>Dmitry,
>
>Yeah, you're right, sorry about that.
>
>Bill Anderson
>The Anderson Files LLC
>
>>Thank you, Bill,
>>
>>From what I understand, the TRANSFORM with @E parameter converts an American Date to British. I needed the opposite, convert a British Date to American.
>>
>>>Dmitry,
>>>
>>>Use the Transform() function with the @E parameter.
>>>
>>>Bill Anderson
>>>The Anderson Files LLC
>>>
>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Can you change the date from British to American using SET DATE command?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>For example, say you have a char column in a DBF like this:
>>>>>>14/10/2020
>>>>>>08/03/2012
>>>>>>16/2/2020
>>>>>>3/3/2010
>>>>>>all the above characters show the date in a British format. Note the above are not dates but char representation of a date.
>>>>>>Now I want to change them to American format (mm/dd/yyyy)
>>>>>>Can it be done without many SUBSTR()?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>TIA
>>>>>
>>>>>At first I thought DTOC() would have a parameter for using a particular SET DATE setting. But I was wrong. But if this were a one time thing I would do something like
>>>>>
>>>>>SCAN
>>>>>SET DATE BRITISH
>>>>>ldDate = CTOD(myField)
>>>>>SET DATE AMERICAN
>>>>>REPLACE myField WTIH DTOC(ldDate)
>>>>>ENDSCAN
>>>>>
>>>>>Not very elegant (dBase III style), but simple
>>>>
>>>>Thank you.