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Wep5622
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Hello,

I'm trying to translate month numbers to month names, which I need to concatenate to another bit of text. For some reason I can't get it right and it just got to be something simple that I'm missing.

This bit works:
DEFINE FILE CAR
	DATE/I8YYMD = 20101101;
	MONTH/Mtr = DATE;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT MONTH
BY CAR
END


So, it prints a string with the month name. Good, just what I need! But...
I need to concatenate other text to the MONTH field, and WebFOCUS refuses to do that as it's apparently not a string field. What's the trick here?

In the end I want something like this:
DEFINE FILE CAR
	DATE/I8YYMD = 20101101;
	MONTH/Mtr = DATE;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT COMPUTE OPTION/A60 = '<option value="' || MONTH || '">' || MONTH || '</option>';
BY CAR
END


I get this error:
0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE 6 IN PROCEDURE ADHOCRQ FOCEXEC *
(FOC280) COMPARISON BETWEEN COMPUTATIONAL AND ALPHA VALUES IS NOT ALLOWED
(FOC009) INCOMPLETE REQUEST STATEMENT
BYPASSING TO END OF COMMAND

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GamP
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The /Mtr thing is just an edit-option for a date field. It does NOT change the format of the date field, it just displays it differently. Using it in another piece of calculation (which you're doing) will be done as a date-field, not as a string.
Take a look at the CHGDAT function, maybe that is what you're looking for.


GamP
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dbeagan
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GamP, right again. Just worked on something like this, so I'll share.

 DEFINE FILE CAR
 SOMEA6YYM /A6YYM = '201011';
 MONTH/A3  = LCWORD(3, CHGDAT('YYMD','MT',SOMEA6YYM,'A3') ,'A3') ;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT MONTH
BY CAR
END


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Tony A
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If you want long month names then use -
MONTH/A10 = LCWORD(10, CHGDAT('YYMD','MX',SOMEA6YYM,'A10') ,'A10');


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Wep5622
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Thanks guys, that did the trick.


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