In a textfield; a date is stored using the date format %u001.
This format works with abbreviate month so a date could look like 17Jul02.

How can i reconvert this date (like '17Jul02') back to a utc long?
When using functions like

long inputstr.to.utc( string inputstr(.), string format(7) )

this doesn't works. He expected a inputstring like '170702' even when you have said that the format is %u001.

any clues are welcome

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How about. try to get the format required by you using function sprintf$ and then use the function mentioned by you.

thanks for the reply,

I'm trying this function but it doesn't work;

can you give me the syntax ?

The input is something like "09Sep02"
This format is %u001
and i want to get the date like 090902

Can you help me further?