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translate error, value out of bounds error

Question: "Translate error, value out of bounds" error with blank date fields: What causes this error and how do I get around the problem? Answer: Fox Pro stores one of three things in a date field: An actual date (ex 19970727 is 7/27/1997) 8 Spaces (ASCII 20) 8 Zeros (ASCII 30) All of these are acceptable to Fox Pro. The Fox Pro driver for the BDE only accepts 1 & 2 as valid dates and returns a translate error for the 3rd (8 ASCII zeros) as it doesn't consider this as a valid date. To fix the problem, restructure the date field to a char field and then restructure the table again changing the char filed back to a date field. This translation writes back only valid values to the date field and fixes the problem.