>>I have a string that could contain one or more dates. The thing is that those date are of type character.
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>>How could I replace those dates in this string by their equivalent representation in date format
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>>Exemple:
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>>"AADSE 1999/11/28 ASDF 1999/10/29
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>>becomes
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>>"AADSE {^1999-11-28} ASDF {^1999-10-29}"
>>
>>
>>Is there a VFP function that would make it possible to do this?
>>If not what would be the easiest way?
>
>PMFJI so late, but I'd handle it like this:
>
>for i=words(s) to 1 step -1
> lcStr=wordnum(s, i)
> if ctod(lcStr)#{}
> lcNstr='{^'+lcStr+'}'
> s=strtran(s, lcStr, lcNstr)
> endif
>endd
>
>Of course, I assumed Set Library to FoxTools :)

Thank you Dragan.