Hoo! sorry for disturbing you guys I later find out my mistake.

I supposed to seperate the _.getitem attribute 1 from the string function.

<dtml-var expr="_.getitem(_.string.lower(date_code),1)">

I have tried this and it works perfectly.

Thanks for your understanding.

At 06:03 PM 9/6/01 +0200, you wrote:

Hi,
Can somebody help me to correct what is wrong in this code below?

<dtml-var expr="_.getitem(_.string.lower(date_code,1))">

date_code is a string value enter by the user by filling a form which i then reference as a DTML Method.

This worked perfectly before inserting the string function -<dtml-var expr="_.getitem(date_code,1)">
then the user will have to type the value in a lower case, this i considered to be rigid.

But after inserting the string function this is error msg i received
Error Type: TypeError
Error Value: read-only character buffer, tuple

Thanks.
Hamzat kamal
Dnet Systems Ltd.,
http://www.dnetsystems.net.