Trouble with mid$ function

[milfredo]

I have spent an hour trying to use the mid$ function on the following date.

"20010125"

I get just about every combination of numbers except what I need. I need to pull out the month. Which would be 01  Can somebody show me the correct number combo to use with mid$ to pull that out?

Thanks
Milfredo

[xcoder]

date$ = "20010125"
month$ = mid$(date$,5,2)
print month$;" as string"
print val(month$);" as number value"

[Chris Iverson]

The month starts at the fifth character(1-indexed) in that string. 5.
The month takes up two characters in that string, so you need to retrieve two characters. 2.

print mid$("20010125", 5, 2)

[milfredo]

Thank you so much.