>Thanks for the help Cetin. Can you help me with this.
>
> REPLACE rac.DDate WITH SUBSTR(aAr(2),5,2) + '/' + SUBSTR(aAr(2),7,2) + '/' + SUBSTR(aAr(2),3,2)
>
>DDate is a date field. aAr(2) holds the value "20011113". when I issue this
>command I get a type mismatch. After I send you this am going to research if
>foxpro has some kind of type conversion function. Thanks again.
ctod() will give you warnings, because of possible ambiguities.
Better, if you use VFP 6 or later, use date(year, month, day) to create the date.
Hilmar.
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