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TomG
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Hi,

I am trying to do something rather simple and
am having problems with it.

I want to reformat a character date value from a YYYYMMDD format to another character type date value that is in a MM/DD/YYYY format.

Thank you in advance.

Tom


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TomG
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With assistance from a co-worker, I have my answer. Hopefully the below will help someone having a
similar challenge.

-> to convert the alpha date from YYYYMMDD to MMDDYYYY... targetDateField/A8=CHGDAT('YYMD', 'MDYY', sourceDateField, 'A8');

-> to introduce the date separators... formattedDate/A10=EDIT(targetDateField, '99/99/9999');


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Waz
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Being an alpha field you could have also use EDIT.
targetDateField/A8=EDIT(sourcedateField,'99/99/') | EDIT(sourcedateField,'$$$$9999');



Ooops got the format wrong.

As per Madhumitha's post

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Madhumitha
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hi,
you want to convert a character date value from yyyymmdd to chatacter date value of mm/dd/yyyy right, then the following code will help you.

targetfield/A10=EDIT(inputfield, '$$$$99/99/')|EDIT(inputfield, '9999')

it will convert yyyymmdd format to character date of mm/dd/yyyy correctly

Eg: inputfield =20080301
then outputfield=03/01/2008

Regards,
Madhu

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trob
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TomG,
If you are going to be dealing with dates often I would recommend that you get use to working with the DATECVT(DATE-FIELD,'IN-FORMAT','OUT-FORMAT') function.

Anytime I'm dealing with dates I seem to require moving to and from smartdates or expressing my date in a format other than what has supplied from my data.


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Madhumitha
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Waz,
What wrong format you got according to my post???
 
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Waz
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Just saying that my original post had the format of the date wrong, where yours was right


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Ted Michalski
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AAARGH. I've tried everything I can think of. Nothing works.

I have a field in the database defined as A10. The actual data in the field is 9/30/2011
I want to convert this to 2011-09-30.
How can I do this?


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Ted Michalski
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Never mind. I don't need this afterall.


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