Yes, VFP will pull in *any* dates if formatted MM/DD/YYYY.


>It can be what ever I choose. That is part of my question. How do I need to farmat it? Is it possible in 6.0 to pull in 2000 dates?
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>What I hac done historically is append into a character field then convert that to a date.
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>However, the file are quite large and I am looking for a better way.
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>>What is the incoming format of the text?
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>> >Yes, but I need the century to say 2000.
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>> >Thanks, Chris