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Daniel G
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I am trying to get the number of days from a start date to the current date. The start date is coming from the DB in an integer (I10) format.

Here's my code so far:

DEFINE FILE FACT_TABLE
NUMBER_OF_DAYS/I4 = DATEDIF(START_DATE, &YYMD, 'D');
END

TABLE FILE FACT_TABLE
PRINT NUMBER_OF_DAYS
END

I am not sure how to convert START_DATE to a format that the DATEDIF can understand. The results I'm getting are lager (40011 days) and that makes me think that the START_DATE isn't being converted to a value that the DATEDIF can understand. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for the help.

Daniel

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Posts: 59 | Registered: November 15, 2012Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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Here's a working example. DATEDIF requires fields in date format:

DEFINE FILE CAR
START_DATE/I10 = 20121203;

START_DATE_I/I8YYMD = START_DATE;
START_DATE_YYMD/YYMD = START_DATE_I;

TODAY_YYMD/YYMD = &YYMD;
NUMBER_OF_DAYS/I9 = DATEDIF(START_DATE_YYMD, TODAY_YYMD, 'D');
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT 
START_DATE
START_DATE_I
START_DATE_YYMD
NUMBER_OF_DAYS
BY COUNTRY
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
END


Francis


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Daniel G
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That did the trick! Thanks!

Daniel


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