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A Fisher
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I've been wracking my brain trying to get this figured out, and all of the solutions that seem like they should work, aren't. I have a date field recorded as A10 (SQL: Char(10), Master File is A10) in my DB. I am attempting to convert it to MDYY format for filtering purposes.

Source Field called FROM_DATE, A10, '30/12/2015' is the example date.

From what I've been reading:

DATECVT (FROM_DATE, 'A10DMYY', 'MDYY') as a detail (DEFINE) field, or some similar variation, should work.

I keep getting blanks for the converted field.

I'm sure there's something ridiculously simple that I'm missing, but I can't find it. I'm openly welcoming someone to post the solution and make me look stupid!! Sorry if this is a repost, but I've been searching and experimenting all day...

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FROM_DATE/A10 = '30/12/2015';
DATE1/A8MDYY = EDIT(FROM_DATE,'$$$99') || EDIT(FROM_DATE,'99') || EDIT(FROM_DATE,'$$$$$$9999');
DATE2/MDYY = DATECVT(DATE1, 'A8MDYY', 'MDYY');


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A Fisher
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Thank you very much, Tom Flynn!

This was the exact solution had been after.


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Kevin W
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Time to recommend the book "(Almost) 1001 Ways to Work With Dates in WebFOCUS" by Price and Perlmutter again.


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GavinL
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Time to recommend the book "(Almost) 1001 Ways to Work With Dates in WebFOCUS" by Price and Perlmutter again.


yea, for only $127. Guess they didn't want to sell a lot of them.

http://www.amazon.com/Almost-D...-8-0-2/dp/1626207364



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Nicholas Spyrison
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or $20 for the WebFOCUS 7 version.

Still not enough readily available content to search for.


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Kevin W
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I got my employer to buy a copy.


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Yes, go with the 7 version for $20 http://www.amazon.com/WebFOCUS...rds=webfocus+7+dates

This is an essential reference guide for anyone who is constantly working with date conversions.

Also if there is a date format you are constantly converting to another I would consider placing a function on the server rather than coding it into every fex.


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A Fisher
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I had seen this book mentioned before, but saw only the higher priced versions.

Thanks for the reminder and finding the $20 copy!


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