Not sure about the lack of the REQUEST object problem - but I believe that the split statement belongs in the string library so you should have: <dtml-let newDate="_.string.split(date,'/')" month="newDate[1]" day="newDate[2]" year="newDate[0]"> Plus - I probably wouldn't use the name date as a variable name - can be trouble! Laurie -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of D. Rick Anderson Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 10:57 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] another one I'm trying to reformat a date that I'm getting from our Sybase server. I get it in yyyy/mm/dd format and I'm trying to change it to mm/dd/yyyy format. I've created a DTML method called fixDate that looks like this: <dtml-call expr="REQUEST.set('date', _.str(date))"> <dtml-let newDate="date.split('/')" month="newDate[1]" day="newDate[2]" year="newDate[0]"> <dtml-var month>/<dtml-var day>/<dtml-var year> </dtml-let> It works if I call http://www.ourdomain.com/fixDate?date=2002/12/25, but if I try to use it from a DTML document I get: Error Type: NameError Error Value: global name 'REQUEST' is not defined If I take out the first line then I get: Error Type: AttributeError Error Value: split which is what prompted me to put it in to begin with. Any ideas? TIA Rick