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silver179
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This problem is about to drive me crazy.

I have a date (in HMDYY format) that I pull from the database and what I want to do is find the difference (in days) between this date and today.

Should be simple. But nope.

I've tried using DATEDIF, but I either get 0 or 38 thousand something. I've tried changing formats of the dates about a dozen different ways, but still no go.

Any help would be much appreciated.

-Stephanie
 
Posts: 15 | Location: Texas | Registered: July 19, 2005Report This Post
j.gross
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See HGETC and HINPUT in
http://documentation.informationbuilders.com/masterinde...53func/datetime3.htm
 
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Spence
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Try this.

DEFINE FILE XXX
START_DATE/YYMD = &YYMD;
DB_DATE/YYMD = HDATE(your db date, 'YYMD');
DAYS_DIFF/I8 = DATEDIF(START_DATE, DB_DATE, 'D');
END
 
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silver179
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Thank you, thank you, thank you! That solved my problem. I knew it couldn't be as difficult as I was making it.

-Stephanie
 
Posts: 15 | Location: Texas | Registered: July 19, 2005Report This Post
Piipster
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There are also subroutines specific date/time formatted fields. In this case HDIFF would've been useful, as well.
 
Posts: 346 | Location: Melbourne Australia | Registered: April 15, 2003Report This Post
Vivian
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You might want to consider looking into the book
(almost) 1001 Ways to Work with Dates in WebFOCUS. It gives lots and lots of examples of date manipulations - along with a cd containing all of the examples.

Vivian
www.aviter.com
 
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