Thomas, Frank, thank you both for your time.
You have have been helpful in solving my problem and also
given me an insight into other issues that I may come
across.

Regards
P

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Hello newsgroup users and Gurus.

Your kind assistance please.

This is a challenge.

I have a column with a text string which is a date. i'e.

30121998= 30th December 1998.

I would like to convert the text string into a actual
date
format.

A tricky one I know, but is it possible.

Regards
Paul





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