>Hello friends,
>
>I would like to ask whether there is a way (function or something) which can determine that a specific string contains a valid date for instance :
>isvaliddate("20011101") would return .t.
>
>Thank you
>Dimitris
Convert to a date with the date(year, month, day) function. Before VFP6, you have to use dtoc() instead.
Trap for errors.
HTH, Hilmar.
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