Allin, only for your information: I was trying to update the Bnak of Spain database and I was having a lot of errors. Finally it seems they have changed in the cvs files the order of the date field. Instead of, for example "2003 SEP" they write now "SEP 2003". Only changing the order of the 'mon' and 'yr' fields in line 246 in bde.c the problem is solved. "if (sscanf(buf, "%7s %d", mon, &yr) == 2) {" You may find the updated database in http://www.et.bs.ehu.es/~etpdihei/be/be.zip -- Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza DEPARTAMENTO DE ECONOMÍA APLICADA III (ECONOMETRÍA Y ESTADÍSTICA) UPV/EHU Avda. Lehendakari Aguirre, 83 | 48015 BILBAO T.: +34 946013732 | F.: +34 946013754 www.ea3.ehu.es