Hi John Try:

REPLACE rac.DDate WITH DATE(VAL(LEFT(aAr(2), 4)), VAL(SUBSTR(aAr(2), 5, 2), VAL(RIGHT(aAr(2), 2)))

>Thanks for the help Cetin. Can you help me with this.
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>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.