>>
>> Do you Know with VFP have any funtion que returns to me the type of
>> string, if it´s character, numeric, date ...
>
>Where is the source of the 'string' that you are referring to? If it's
>a character string that someone enters, and you want to determine if
>it's a date, number, etc., then the following may work:
>
>m.lcString was entered by the user
>m.lcType = "U"
>on error *
>do case
> case not empty(ctod(m.lcString))
> m.lcType = "D"
> case isdigit(alltrim(m.lcString))
> m.lcType = "N"
> otherwise
> m.lcType = "C"
>endcase
>
>If the string comes in as a parameter, then TYPE() will work (as
>mentioned in the other response).
>
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>
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Paul and Michel

thanks very much
Anderson Girardi