>i have in my table fields frdate and todate.
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>in my form i have inputs for from and to date, that i want to check if this is already in my table.
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>say in my table i already have frdate={10/01/2003} and todate={10/12/2003}. if my user inputs from and to date, {10/02/2003} and {10/02/2003} i want to prompt a message that it is already in the table.
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>i know how to check if a date is in between, between(mydate,frdate,todate). but how to check from and to date if it's in the table already?
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>pls help.

Evelyn,

Do you want to check for overlapping dates ?
In that case

locate for between(InputDateFrom, Table.FrDate, Table.ToDate) or  between(InputDateTo, Table.FrDate, Table.ToDate)
Overlap = Found()