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Max Nevill
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Any thoughts on how to do this? I want to take 2016-01-12 (YYMD) to turn into 20160112 (integer).

I tried taking

DPART(DATE,YEAR) | DPART(DATE,MONTH) | DPART(DATE,DAY)

But that threw an error, expecting alpha fields.

Then I tried

EDIT(DPART(DATE,YEAR)) | EDIT(DPART(DATE,MONTH)) | EDIT(DPART(DATE,DAY))

And that just gave me jibberish. Any thoughts?

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Tom Flynn
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Hi Max,
Did you try NEW_DATE/I8 = YOUR_YYMD_DATE_FIELD;
If that doesn't work, try the FPRINT function...
Tom


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j.gross
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NEW_DATE/I8 = YOUR_YYMD_DATE_FIELD;

Better, 
NEW_DATE/I8YYMD = YOUR_YYMD_DATE_FIELD;
 
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Max Nevill
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Good suggestion Tom.

Trying NEWDATE/I8 = DATEFIELD gave me a 5 digit number conversion, which wasn't I needed unfortunately.

FPRINT(DATEFILED, 'YYMD','I8')

gave the error:

1 FILE(S) LOADED
0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE 10 IN PROCEDURE TEST_TRN58FOCEXEC *
(FOC36355) INVALID TYPE OF ARGUMENT #3 FOR USER FUNCTION FPRINT
(FOC101) ERROR IN DEFINE IN MASTER FILE: TABLE_NAME
BYPASSING TO END OF COMMAND

So then I just got fancy and over-engineered the function.

EDIT(SUBSTV(10, FPRINT(START_DATE, 'YYMD', 'A10'),1,4,'A4') | SUBSTV(10, FPRINT(START_DATE, 'YYMD', 'A10'),6,7,'A2') | SUBSTV(10, FPRINT(START_DATE, 'YYMD', 'A10'),9,10,'A2'))

Maybe more work than necessary, but gets the job done. Thanks for the help!


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Max Nevill
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Originally posted by j.gross:
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NEW_DATE/I8 = YOUR_YYMD_DATE_FIELD;

Better, 
NEW_DATE/I8YYMD = YOUR_YYMD_DATE_FIELD;


That keeps the "/" which I want to get rid of.


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Waz
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That keeps the "/" which I want to get rid of.


That is a formatted integer.

Just assign result to an I8 field


Waz...

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dbeagan
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Need to use I8YYMD

 TABLE FILE systable
 PRINT NAME NOPRINT
 COMPUTE SOMEDAY/YYMD    = 20131211;
 COMPUTE SOMEDAY2/I8YYMD = SOMEDAY;
 COMPUTE SOMEDAY_I8/I8   = SOMEDAY2;
 WHERE RECORDLIMIT IS 1
 END


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Hallway
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Try using the DATECVT function:
https://webfocusinfocenter.inf...r/source/datecvt.htm 

 INT_DATE/I8 = DATECVT ( YYMD_DATE, 'YYMD', 'I8YYMD');


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