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I am attempting to calculate a person's age.

Here is what I have so far. When it prints the age field, for all the records, the age is 0. Please assist.

BIRTH_DT/YYMD = HDATE(BIRTH_DATE, 'YYMD');
BEGIN_DATE/YYMD = '&BEGDATE';
AGE_IN_DAYS/I5 = BEGIN_DATE - BIRTH_DATE;
AGE/I2 = AGE_IN_DAYS/365.25;

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That's the same as your Calculate Birth Date post. The DATEADD is very powerful.




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Why aren't you using DATEDIF?

AGE/I2=DATEDIF(BIRTH_DT,BEGIN_DT,'Y');

What you are doing can actually give a bad result because of leap days. I had this argument with the Feds several years ago and of course I won.


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