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Ved
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I have a Date value stored in a String. The value is in 'DD/MM/YYYY' format.

I need to convert it into a Date format (Default WebFOCUS Date Format HYYMDS) (A17).

Can you please provide me the steps to do it. Please note that I do not want this in the DEFINE.

I have a variable and I want to hold the new value in another variable.


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Ved,

I suppose that in your second variable you want an alpha date in date-time format. Here is what you can do:
  
-SET &D1='07/05/2008';
-SET &DH=HCNVRT(HDTTM(DMY(31121900, EDIT(&D1,'99$99$9999')), 8, 'HYYMDS'), '(HYYMDS)', 20, 'A20');
-SET &DH17=HCNVRT(HDTTM(DMY(31121900, EDIT(&D1,'99$99$9999')), 8, 'HYYMDS'), '(H17)', 17, 'A17');
-TYPE &D1
-TYPE &DH
-TYPE &DH17

Or any other format you wish to have.

Explanations:
EDIT(&D1,'99$99$9999') gets rid of the slashes
DMY(31121900, EDIT(&D1,'99$99$9999')) claculates the number of days from the origin of focus dates, converting the alpha date to a DMYY format
HDTTM(DMY(31121900, EDIT(&D1,'99$99$9999')), 8, 'HYYMDS') converts the focus date to a date-time
HCNVRT converts the date-time to alpha according to the specified format in parentheses.

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