>Hi all
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>Given a text file with 11/12/1987 and a dbf with a single date field, APPEND FROM results in 11/12/19 in the date field.
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>What must I do to have APPEND FROM import that date correctly?

Mike,

Look at the article that the late Ed Rauh and I wrote in the Feb. 2001 issue on the Windows Script Host at www.vfug.org. The VBScript regular expression parser along long with FILETOSTR() and STRTOFILE() can solve this rather easily.