It also sounds like some negative testing might help in this case - there's data being tested as dates that can contain ambiguous values. "09-262" may not seem like a regular date to us but it could be - CF doesn't have any prejudices: if there's any way to consider the value a date, then it does.
So in this case it might be as simple (if that's a regular format) to create a "isCubicleNumber()" function and run that as well: <cfif NOT isCubicleNumber(myVar) AND isDate(myVar)> You can create as many negative tests as your data requires to winnow away the ambiguous values before sending them to isDate(). But you're always going to have problems applying type-detection to essentially random data - there will almost always be chances for false positives. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:297300 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
