>>>I have the year, the month and the day in 3 different variable myear, mmonth and mday (char mode) and i don't know the current DATE format the user is using. How can I load this in a date field ?
>>>Thanks
>>>eric
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>>Replace DateField WITH EVALUATE("{^"+mYear+"/"+mMonth+"/"+mDay+"}")
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>Jim, simplify a bit, and remember the new parameters for the DATE() function- very handy.

Erik,

Yes DATE()is handy but not when the vars are character. Which is worse;

Replace DateField WITH EVALUATE("{^"+mYear+"/"+mMonth+"/"+mDay+"}")

or

Replace DateField WITH DATE(VAL(mYear),VAL(mMonth),VAL(mDay))

In the first there is one function call and in the second there are four function calls.