Gary,
To extend Jill's idea a little (so it doesn't rely on SET("DATE") etc), you could use
lcDate = '{^2001-06-31}'
? empty(eval(lcDate)) Cheers,
Andrew
>Fred:
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>>? EMPTY({^2001/06/31})
>
>The above on my system generates an error "Date/Datetime evaluated to an invalid date". I don't know whether this happens on your system? However, if this is the behaviour you expected, Jill's solution provides a boolean return value for valid date/invalid date without the need for error trapping.
>
>Thanks.
If we were to introduce Visual FoxBase+, would we be able to work from the dotNet Prompt?
From Top 22 Developer Responses to defects in Software
2. "It’s not a bug, it’s a feature."
1. "I thought I fixed that."
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