>>>>Sorry, Terry.
>>>Magnetism and my password :-)
>>
>>Don't understand you, what do you mean?
>>
>>BTW, quick question (I'll start new thread also):
>>I have a Date field. Century is on.
>>I want a character field in this format: 1/1/80, 11/23/01, etc.
>>
>>What's the simplest way to do it? Also since this date is already a result of long function, I don't want to invoke it multiple time.
>>

iif(vartype(oJC)='O' and oJC.CurState='MA',dtoc(GetDescription(TOWN,'FilingDate','Town'),'LandCt_Fm'),'')

>>
>>In theory, though, I can write another function, say, ConvertDate(tdDate), so it'll solve my problem.
>
>Ok, never mind. I wrote this function (may be it's not a best code, but it works):

>*!******************************************************************************
>*  Description.......: ConvertDate -  for Galley Report
>*  Calling Samples...: ConvertDate(DATE)
>*  Parameter list....:
>*  Created by........: Nadya Nosonovsky 12/20/00 11:40:10 AM
>*  Modified by.......:
>********************************************************************
>lparameters tdDate
>local lcDate, lnMonth, lnYear, lnDay
>if !empty(tdDate)
>	lnMonth=month(tdDate)
>	lnDay=day(tdDate)
>	lnYear=year(tdDate)
>	lcDate=transform(lnMonth)+'/'+transform(lnDay)+'/'+right(transform(lnYear),2)
>else
>	lcDate=''
>endif
>return lcDate
>

Wouldn't you need the 'T" ot 'trim' function to loose leading spaces (what was that guy, @T or something) for tansform. Maybe I'm a couple of versions behind?