Put it in quotes. It's treating it as a number which overflows the buffer. This is a case where a number is not a number, but a string. ------------------------------------------------------------- Gary L. Paveza, Jr. Production Support Analyst - Lead (302) 761-3173 - voice (877) 720-2970 - pager -----Original Message----- From: Donald Frantum [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:24 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [HP3000-L] SETVAR I am trying to use the following two INPUT expressions to create a SETVAR expression, but I keep getting the following error. Commmand File: INPUT FRSTDATE;PROMPT="PLEASE ENTER THE PERIOD START DATE, E.G. 20010101:";& READCNT=8 INPUT ENDDATE;PROMPT="PLEASE ENTER THE PERIOD END DATE, E.G. 20010101:";& READCNT=8 SETVAR FRSTEND1 !FRSTDATE!ENDDATE Error Msg: SETVAR FRSTEND1 2001020120010101 ^ Integer overflow in the expression. (CIERR 9740) I have read the error manual, but it doesn't give me much to go on. Does anyone have any idea how to get around this? Thank in advance. Donald