change text to a date in a query

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The data imported into a table looks like this...

White| |Greg|20oct2002|

I used a query and parsed it into individual fields using formats simular to the one below.

WEDate: Left$([WEDate2],InStr([WEDate2],"|")-1)

After parsing, parsing and parsing again.
I now have 3 fields...
White and Greg and 20oct2002

The problem now, is that the date is in text format.

How can I make the query read this field as a date?

Thanks in advance,
 

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If you wrap the function that you used to get the date with the CDate() function it will force it into a date for you.

HTh

Peter
 
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I tried...
WEDate: CDate(Left$([WEDate2],InStr([WEDate2],"|")-1))

and the query fields show as #Error.

What did I do wrong?
 
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It looks as if Access does not recognise 20oct2002 as a date.
You will need to split it further :(
it will probably be easier to do this as a secon step rather than try to combine into one long function!
dDate: =CDate(Left([WEDate],2) & " " & Mid([WEDate],3,3) & " " & Right([WEDate],4))
This assumes that your date has a ddmmmyyyy format.

HTH

Peter
 
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