Try it on DEFINE.

This might help you
https://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/...1057331/m/2911016742

Brenda, it is possible that APPT_DATE is not an alpha field but a date field and so cannot be used in the STRIP function. depending on the format of APPT_DATE, you probably don't need to use the STRIP function to remove the slashes.

If APPT_DATE has format YYMD, do the following:

DATE2/A8YYMD = APPT_DATE;
Aptdate/A8 = DATE2;

COMPUTE APPT_DATE1/A8DMYY = APPT_DATE; NOPRINT
COMPUTE Aptdate/A8 = STRIP(10, APPT_DATE1, '/', 'A8');

Should do the job

John, no stripping necessary when going from A8YYMD to A8.

Cheers.

As you say you are new to Report Painter, why do you need to remove the '/'. As all have said if it is a smart date, the '/' are how it displays, you have to convert to an alpha field to get no '/' to display.

Brenda

It depends on why you want to remove the '/'.
If you want to do some calculations, use only the year or month part, change the format from YYMD to DMY or whatever, there are 1001 (or more) ways to do it.
For a starter sometimes a bit confusing.

We can help if we know a bit more, so please update your signature.

Thanks for all of your replies. I did not realize that you couldn't do the Strip function on a date field. I used a compute with the format YY|M|D to eliminate the '/' and that seems to have taken care of the problem. I had to remove the slashes in order to compare this date to another and didn't realize that there were so many date 'functions' available. Like I said, I'm brand new to this so just getting my feet wet. Thanks again to all! I'm moving on to a really complicated issue next and I may have to come back for some real help...

Good point Francis.

Brenda we can help you better if you show your webfocus release as part of your signature.