>VFP6 has a function that returns a date from year, month and day numbers - i.e. DATE(1998,2,28) will return 02/28/1998. Is there a better way in VFP5 than to build a date string from the values and pass it to the CTOD function?

I don't know if it's better or not but it doesn't involve string functions and is SET DATE independent

lnYear = 1998
lnMonth = 2
lnDay = 28
? Gomonth({0001/0001/0001}, (lnYear-0001)*12 + lnMonth-1) + lnDay-1