>>>Could someone please tell me how to set a date variable to empty? In other
>>>words, how do I specify an empty date?
>>Try MYDATE = { / / } or something like that.
>
>ldToday = {} is even simpler...

I know that this is the syntax within Visual FoxPro, but this does not seem to work within Visual Basic. The reference book that we have indicates that a date specified #04/06/1999#. While this syntax does work, all of the following produce errors: ##, #//#, # / / #