>>This has worked fine in VFP3 & 5 but now I get an ambiguous data error with a referance something along the lines of {mm,dd,yyyy (d:?)}. Please don't hold me to the above error being exact I am working from memory.
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>Just a guess here Terry, but I would suspect it's not necessarily your usage of {} but rather the effect of new STRICTDATE default. Try playing with Strictdate setting and see if that resolves it?
Thanks for the help I will investigate. Smells right to me.