Peter,

{} is the way to write an empty date value.
{/:} is the way to write an empty datetime value.

>I use VFP for a website I am working on written with VBScript. I need to add a record to a table that has a datetime field. I don't want that value to be NULL but it needs to be blank until another task happens. How do I put the:
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>into that field? I tried putting it in { } but got an invalid character on the brackets. I tried quotes but got a type mismatch.
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>Suggestions?