try:
$date=substr("$dat", 0,2)."/".substr("$dat",2,2)."/".substr("$dat",-4);
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From: "Ben Cairns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:13 AM
Subject: [PHP-DB] Returning a formated dat
> I have a date stored in a MySQL field in a format like this:
>
> For example, 02/02/2001 (Today) would be stored as:
> 02022001
>
> What I need to do is to format that so that it looks like:
> 02/02/2001
>
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