>The other responses gave sometimes complicated ways of doing it. I'm not sure why. All you you have to do is TTOC(Dtime1).
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>-Michelle
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>>Help!
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>>I need to be able to display data from a DATETIME field as well as a CURRENCY field in a messagebox/ wait window and need to convert the data to a string.
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>>Is there any function to get the date and time as a string??
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>>eg the DATETIME field called Dtime1 has data 12/07/1999 14:23:44
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>>I need to display this the same way and need as a result a string as above "12/07/1999 14:23:44"
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>>How do I do this without extensive manipulation of hours(), minutes() etc??
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>>Bernard

Michelle

Thanks. Exactly my sentiments. Your answer is actually the one I discovered and used (no thanks to the vfp help system which misdirected me all over the place without giving me TTOC(). That I happened on chance.

Thanks again

Bernard