On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Ranade, Sameer wrote: > Hi Raja, > > begin-select > TO_CHAR(TO_DATE($dtin ,'YYYYDDD'),'DD-MON-YYYY') &dtout > move &dtout to $dtout > FROM DUAL > end-select You can also use the SQR functions strtodate and datetostr : let $dtout = datetostr(strtodate($dtin,'YYYYDDD'),'DD-MON-YYYY') HTH, Ray