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From: vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: dBase tricky INDEXing question...
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Date: 26 May 88 14:14:22 GMT
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Reply-To: vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
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Summer 87 Clipper has a very useful function dtos():

	. d=ctod("1/1/81")
	. d1=dtos(d)
	. ? d1
		19810101
	. ? type("d1")
		C

Another date problem in dBIII+ is that:

	. ? ( ctod("") < ctod("1/1/81") )
		.T.
	. ? ( ctod("") > ctod("1/1/81") )
		.T.

Nifty, huh?  Gives me fits. . .

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