>Hello all;
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>I am trying to set a empty value to a date type variable and the VFP are complaining of:
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mybeautydate = ctod("  /  /  ")

It's probably bitching about strict date typing; you can either turn of strict date handling with SET STRICTDATE To 0; better would be to avoid the CTOD() entirely and just use the date literal form:

MyEmptyDate = {}