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Is Date String A Valid Date?
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06/07/2001 15:44:01
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00526801
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Hi Steve,

Worked fine for me - I'll have to have a play with some sysformat settings and get back to you.

Might not be for a week or so as we're going away for a bit of a holiday.

Cheers,

Andrew

>>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))  && returns .T.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Andrew
>>
>
>Andrew,
>
>This method errors out on my system, giving me "Date/Datetime evaluated to an invalid date". It also errors out switching it to lcDate = '{^06-31-2001}'. Does it not generate an error on your system?


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