>>>Yours will not work with a few dates...for example try August 31st. It will return August 30th.
>>>
>>>Needs to be in two steps with the second step using the next month's day.
>>>
>>>Take care,
>>>Joe
>>Joe,
>>
>>Right you are, here;s my revised code that doesn't break for August.
>>
>>ldDate = {08/01/97}
>>? (GoMonth(ldDate,1)-day(gomonth(ldDate,1)-1)-1) && returns 08/31/97
>
>Actually, your old formula worked fine. The new one doesn't. (It returns 07/31/97).

Haven't followed the thread all the way, but what about doing it this way:

* To find last day in a month out from a date
lddate = CTOD("08/01/97")
ldlastday = CTOD(STR(MONTH(lddate)+1)+"/01/"+STR(YEAR(lddate)))-1


Works fine for me. :)

Erik Niese-Petersen