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saggy
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I have a Date in the format of tMY which gives a date in format of Jan, 05 .But i do need it the format of Jan - 05 or Jan 05.Is there a wasy to do this with out using the concatenate option or the CTRAN fucntion which replaces characters.but in both the above options it need to be converted in alpha numeric format.Please suggest if you have any better sokution

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njsden
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Hi Saggy,

I've been playing with this but I haven't been able to find a way to replace "," by "-" other than by using alphanumeric fields; it does not seem to be possible to keep such a value in a DATE field. Well, it is technically possible when using "basic" date components such as Y-M-D but not for cases like "tM". You can for instance have a field as 
MYDATE/Y-M-D = &YYMD;
and it'll use dashes as separators.

Is there a specific reason why you want to avoid the use of an alpha field?

If what you need is to keep the value as an actual DATE to be used in other expressions or calculations, you can always keep a DATE field in your report as NOPRINT while using an ALPHA one for display purposes.

Please see example below:

  
DEFINE FILE CAR
TODAY_DT/YYMD WITH COUNTRY = &YYMD;
REAL_DT/tMY  = TODAY_DT;
FMT_DT/A6   = DATETRAN(REAL_DT,'(MY)','(-t)','EN', 6, 'A6');
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT 
      COUNTRY NOPRINT
      TODAY_DT
      REAL_DT
      FMT_DT
END


REAL_DT is an actual DATE field you can use for whatever DATE manipulations you need.
FMT_DT is the formatted value you need although in alpha format.

You can read more about WebFOCUS DATES at: http://documentation.informati...rts436/1_aarpt10.htm

I don't think there are big differences in most recent versions but you may want to look for them in your specific product's documentation.

Hope that helps!

- Neftali.


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Francis Mariani
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Depending on the format of the original date, it is possible to output the date in a format you require, using Date-Time formatted columns. Here's an example:

DEFINE FILE CAR
DT1/I8YYMD WITH COUNTRY = 20090324;
DT2/YYMD = DT1;
DT3/HYYMD = HDTTM(DT2,8,'HYYMD');
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
DT3
DT3/HMtY
END

HMtY outputs as "Mar 09".


Francis


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