You mean
xx = "20011101"
?date(val(left(xx, 4)), val(substr(xx,5,2)), val(right(xx,2)))
aerror(ff) e.t.c. ?

dim

>>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.