Thanks.

>I think Rick's is somewhat similar to this. You might keep as a reference. In fact it was longer to assume what value to return (was designed for pediatrics:) and was expressing age with a notation like '23/365', '3/12' or '16'. Honestly I lost the longer version :
>

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>* AgeInYMD
>* Parameters :
>* date DateOfBirth,
>* date TargetDateToCalculateAge (If not passed date() assumed),
>*
>* return : Character - Age in YYYYMMDD format
>*************
>
>*function AgeInYMD
>LPARAMETERS dBirthDate, dTargetDate
>IF parameters() < 1
>    RETURN {}
>ENDIF
>IF empty(dTargetDate)
>    dTargetDate = date()
>ENDIF
>
>nYears = year(dTargetDate)-year(dBirthDate)
>
>IF gomonth(dBirthDate,nYears*12) > dTargetDate
>    nYears = nYears - 1
>ENDIF
>
>dBirthDate = gomonth(dBirthDate,nYears*12)
>
>nMonths = 0
>
>DO while month(dBirthDate) # month(dTargetDate)
>    dBirthDate = gomonth(dBirthDate,1)
>    nMonths = nMonths + 1
>ENDDO
>
>IF day(dBirthDate) > day(dTargetDate)
>    nMonths = nMonths - 1
>    dBirthDate = gomonth(dBirthDate,-1)
>ENDIF
>
>nDays = dTargetDate - dBirthDate
>
>RETURN padl(int(nYears * 10^4 + nMonths * 10^2 + nDays),8,'0')

Cetin

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>>Rick - I could have used that awhile back. Exact age is not an easy calculation to get right. Here in Peds we usually report ages in years and months when we do statistics, and I spent a whole afternoon getting my function to come out right!
>>
>>I'll be using yours next time I need one!
>>
>>
>>>The one- and two-liners are OK if you're not worried about being exactly right all the time. If you need more precision, I posted an AGE function that returns the exact age in years, months, and days. You can find it in the UT files section, and also on the FoxPro Developers' page of my web site (see the link in my sig line).
>>>
>>>>Is there a simple VFP age calculation Function ? EX: something like AGECALC({date1},{date2}) ?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for your help
>>>>Stephen J. Hunt