>>>I am writing a program and I need a TIME IN field and
>>>a TIME OUT field. I know I could use VALIDS and check
>>>the user entry, but I thought that vfp50 might have
>>>some built in stuff. Any ideas?
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>>Robert,
>>
>>I am just thinking off of the top of my head here...
>>
>>You could use a datetime field and then either fill the date portion with null or you could use the entire field. Your program would then have a time and date for the start of the appointment (TIME_IN) and time and date for the end of the appointment (TIME_OUT). It would be a more general solution to scheduling.
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>>You would then be using a field that is fundamentally of type "time" and foxpro would handle much of the error checking.
>>
>>Someone jump in here if this suggestion is totally wrong, but I pretty sure this should work.
>
>hay Evan:
>I tried it and if I could get rid of the date, it might work.
>I do not need the date, only TIME IN and TIME OUT. I am not
>aware of a way to substr a field. any ideas?
>thanks..rob

Rob,

You might want to check out the format statement, perhaps you can suppress the date portion using that. There must be a way. Let's just hope one of these foxpro gurus jump in.