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Microsoft Visual FoxPro Testing with Empty Dates

VFP’s BETWEEN() function is useful for checking to see if a date lies within a given range, but it doesn't handle empty dates very well.

Martin Griffin

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Here's how to to pass an empty date as the end of the range, and have it treated as the highest possible date; that is, it would always be considered higher than the date under test.

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Web Edition: 2007 Week 40, Doc #19287

Print Edition: September 2007

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