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Max Nevill
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Hi all. I'm using release R727703B and I'm trying to convert an Academic Year in an A7 format i.e. "2004-05" to a YYMD for calculating date differences.


My thought was to do this:
EDIT(EDIT( A_PERIOD,'9999') | '/09/01'))
which creates 2004/09/01 in an A10 Format and then edits it into YYMD. Unfortunately the software doesn't like this and spits out blanks.

I then thought to do

EDIT(EDIT( F_PERIOD,'9999') | '0901') and put it into an I8YYMD format, but again, the software doesn't like this and only wants to spit out A8 format.

Any suggestions?

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Dan Satchell
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Try this:

A_DATE/A8YYMD = EDIT(A_PERIOD,'9999$99') | '01';
S_DATE/YYMD   = A_DATE ;


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Max Nevill
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Originally posted by Dan Satchell:
Try this:

A_DATE/A8YYMD = EDIT(A_PERIOD,'9999$99') | '01';
S_DATE/YYMD   = A_DATE ;


Good suggestion, I unfortunately get blanks in my S_DATE transform.


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Dan Satchell
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This works for me:

DEFINE FILE CAR
 A_PERIOD/A7 WITH COUNTRY = '2004-05';
 A_DATE/A8YYMD = EDIT(A_PERIOD,'9999$99') | '01';
 S_DATE/YYMD   = A_DATE ;
END
-*
TABLE FILE CAR
 PRINT A_PERIOD A_DATE S_DATE
 WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1 ;
END


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Alan B
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Dan's suggestion should work unless there is something else there.

You could always try DATEPATTERN in the MFD.


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Max Nevill
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Thanks guys, this is what I needed.


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