>I have a program that pulls information in from the header portion of different text files. I want to store the parameters in a dbf file and recall them as I need to as opposed to hard coding them into the program in a case statement.
> This is stored in a field called start CTOD(SUBSTR(AP,56,8)).
>
>When I set MVStart = Start all I get is the text CTOD(SUBSTR(AP,56,8))
>
>Thanks
>Todd

Use Evaluate() function

MVStart = EVALUATE(mytable.Start )