Ok... then I will continue to use the TRY/CATCH.

Regards,
Neil

>Hi, Neil-
>
>> I just need a way to make certain that the date converts from character to DateTime without throwing an error. I could wrap the conversion-to-date in a try/ catch construct but I was wondering if there was a better way.
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>Well, better, how? This is exactly what a Try/Catch would be good for, IMO. You can catch the specific error that the string isn't a valid date. I don't see how else you'd do it unless you go through some convoluted string parsing and analyzing.