>That's similar to what I was using, I was just curious if there was an internal VFP function that did it for you, one that I missed. Thanks though.

There is no such internal function.

My own version of the function (it is convenient to declare a function, so you can call it as one):

FUNCTION STOD(tcDateString)
	* Converse of dtos. I use this to embed a date in a string of parameters, and extract it again.
	* The date string, of course, must conform to the standard imposed by the dtos() function:
	* yyyymmdd (8 digits, with no separators).
	if empty(tcDateString)
		return {}
	endif
	return date(;
		val(substr(tcDateString,1,4)),;
		val(substr(tcDateString,5,2)),;
		val(substr(tcDateString,7,2)))
ENDFUNC && STOD

I didn't add error-checking yet; I am just realizing that date() will probably fail for Feb. 30, etc. In this case, you should return an empty string, or a null value (of date type).

Hilmar.