>I did:
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select distinct ttod( a.from ) from ( lcFile ) into array laTmp

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>Since the table currently only has values 10-10-2003, this should have given:
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laTmp[1]  "10-10-2003"

>but it gave:
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laTmp[1]  "02-02-2003"

>I did a lot of debugging, couldn't explain what was happening and we thought with a laughter "well, maybe it's an easter egg, translating bin 10 to dec 02". :)
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>In fact, what was the cause?! I forgot to specify the a behind lcFile. And there was a similar table open in workarea a! The record over there indeed had 02-02-2003.
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Just want to point out that using A as an alias is generally not a good idea. Much better to use the actual alias.

Tamar