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Nova27
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Hello,

I know there are some threads on this forum already with the issue I am facing, I tried to go thru them but couldn't find a solution that solved my problem Frowner

I am using a SQL passthru query in WebFocus, saving it with ON TABLE SAVE AS and then reading the contents of that file using -READ statement. The date field in my Oracle database is of DATE datatype.

When I write the SQL as:
SELECT mydate from my table;

and then save the results and READ from it, the mydate field is of the format YYYYMMDD (By the way I have to use this field as a variable in one of my headings on the report, so I use the variable I READ into from the SQL)

Since I want the Date to be displayed in MM/DD/YYYY format, I changed my SQL to:
SELECT TO_CHAR(mydate, 'MM/DD/YYYY') and then the date comes up with 000010MM/DD/YYYY

I am not sure why those 1st 6 characters appear in my datefield... I tried TRUNC, TO_DATE, TRIM and everything else I could think of, but nothing helps me to display MM/DD/YYYY... How do I get rid of those 1st 6 characters?

What am I doing wrong?

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Francis Mariani
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If only the whole world used YYYYMMDD...

The quickest way to convert a date variable is to use the CHGDAT function.

In your case, I'd leave the SQL column in YYYYMMDD format and use Dialogue Manager to convert the variable, as in this example (ignore the TABLE FILE):

DEFINE FILE CAR
DATE1/YYMD = '2016/04/24';
END

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
DATE1
BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
ON TABLE SAVE AS HDATE1
END
-RUN

-READ HDATE1 &DATE1.A8.

-SET &DATE1A = CHGDAT('YYMD','MDYY',&DATE1,'A10');


-TYPE &DATE1 &DATE1A


Francis


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Nova27
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Thanks Francis for your help!

CHGDAT helped me change the display format like I wanted, but I can't get it to display '/' in the date to separate month from day from year.. Basically I am looking to display the date as 11/11/2015 (as example)..

I can't use the DEFINE statement since it defaults my date to 2016/04/24 ... but my date will be dynamic based on the query result...

Thanks again!


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Francis Mariani
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The DEFINE in my code is just an example - it's a way for me to get a DATE into my request. Please post some code so that we may help you further...


Francis


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Nova27
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I have to display DATE1A in a text field defined later... in the format MM/DD/YYYY

DEFINE FILE CAR
DATE1/YYMD = '2016/04/24';
END

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
DATE1
BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
ON TABLE SAVE AS HDATE1
END
-RUN

-READ HDATE1 &DATE1.A8.

-SET &DATE1A = CHGDAT('YYMD','MDYY',&DATE1,'A10');

DEFINE FILE CAR
TEXT1/A50 WITH MODEL = 'Effective Date of Contract: &DATE1A';
END


When I do this it displays my date as MMDDYYYY (11012015 for example) but I want it to display with the '/' as 11/01/2015 ...


Thanks!


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Francis Mariani
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Here is an example using the very handy FPRINT function:

DEFINE FILE CAR
DATE1/YYMD = '2016/04/24';
END

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
COMPUTE DATE1A/A10 = FPRINT(DATE1, 'MDYY', 'A10');
BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
ON TABLE HOLD AS HDATE1
END
-RUN

-READFILE HDATE1

DEFINE FILE CAR
TEXT1/A50 WITH MODEL = 'EFFECTIVE DATE OF CONTRACT: &DATE1A';
END


Francis


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Danny-SRL
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quote:
-SET &DATE1A = CHGDAT('YYMD','MDYY',&DATE1,'A10'); 

 
-SET &DATE1A = EDIT(CHGDAT('YYMD','MDYY',&DATE1,'A10'),'99/99/9999');


Daniel
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Nova27
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Thank you Francis & Daniel - it works!!


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