title: How to convert from MySQL date string YYY-MM-DD into Visual FoxPro/DBF Date format
body: <p>Im new on Visual FoxPro and I have a problem trying to convert a string date mysql formated string with visual fox pro.</p>
  
  <p>I have selected MySQL table rows from Visual Fox Pro app and store that result set in a FoxPro cursor but now I need to convert the values of that column (for each row) date wich is not a Mysql date column but a char column with the mysql date format (YYYY-MM-DD) so i have tried with something like this: 
  `SCAN 
          REPLACE date_column WITH CTOD('date_column')  </p>
  
  <p>ENDSCAN`   </p>
  
  <p>but it does not work :( </p>
  
  <p>can anyone help me please? </p>