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how to compare today's date to a DB date field in a report's where condition

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July 01, 2004, 08:19 PM
<turtle>
how to compare today's date to a DB date field in a report's where condition
Hello,
I have tried a number of things, but none of them work. I would like to put a where condition on my report that compares today's date with a date field in my DB table.

I've tried something like this:
datedif &mdyy, datefield, 'D' < 0

but it did not work, nor did something along the lines of:
today ge datefield

When I used the 'Assist' feature, it didn't seem to let me choose anything except a specific date, so that's when I started trying out other things.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
July 01, 2004, 08:34 PM
<WFUser>
You can create a defined field of the same format and compare them.

DEFINE FILE filename
TODAY/MDYY = &MDYY;
END
TABLE FILE filename
PRINT ...
WHERE DBFLD EQ TODAY
END

But a more efficient way would be to treat today's date as a literal

IF DBFLD EQ '&MDYY'