>There may be a better way, but of the top of my head:
>
>ALLTRIM(STR(VAL( LEFT( oJC.IssMonth, 2 ) )))

Hi Jonathan,

With VFP6.0 I make a habit to use transform() instead of alltrim(str())


>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I have this string in my report:
>>SUBSTR(oJC.IssMonth,3) +' YEAR-TO-DATE RECAP THRU ISSUE ' +LEFT(oJC.IssMonth,2)
>>
>>left(oJC.IssMonth,2) would be '07', '08', etc. I would like to print just '7' or '8' in my Report. What would be the simplest way to achive this?
>>
>>Thanks.