@td gives /OV

[Walter Vaughan Jr]

Mid returns two characters. It could return two alphabetic characters. Don't you have to cast them (the result of the mid) as an integer before you can do a mathematical operation?

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Running filePro 5.7.00.04R4 on SCO Unix 5.0.7 In a processing table I assign a numeric value to a variable based on the month of a date (@td).  I'm getting /O in that variable When debugging the processing table I get /OV when I press 'f' for field and enter @td.
Processing lines:
pe(2,.0)=mid(@td,"1","2")-"6"

The Unix system date is correct.
@dt gives me the correct date.

Any ideas why I am getting the error on @td
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