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Nicholas Spyrison
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I am simply trying to find the last quarter.
Date_YYYYQQ is A6
Date_Calendar_Year is I4

I have the following define.

  DEFINE FILE DM
iYYYYQQ/I6=EDIT( Date_YYYYQQ );
aQQ/A2=EDIT( Date_YYYYQQ, '$$$$99');
LastYYYYQQ/I6=IF aQQ EQ '01' THEN ( Date_Calendar_Year -1)|04 ELSE iYYYYQQ-1;
END


results in:
  0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE      4  IN PROCEDURE ADHOCRQ FOCEXEC *
 (FOC279) NUMERIC ARGUMENTS IN PLACE WHERE ALPHA ARE CALLED FOR


I know aQQ EQ '01'. what is the issue.

As a side issue;
When I try iQQ/I2=EDIT( Date_YYYYQQ, '$$$$99');
I get:
  (FOC282) RESULT OF EXPRESSION IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE FORMAT OF FIELD: iQQ

Why does editing the alpha to Int work without the mask, but breaks when Include the mask?


Thanks all-

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Martin vK
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Hi Nicholas,

The problem is with 
( Date_Calendar_Year -1)|04
. You can not use string concatenation with numbers.
Try following: 
100 * (Date_Calendar_Year -1) + 4


Martin.


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Danny-SRL
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You could try:
  
DEFINE FILE CAR
QR/I2=IF LAST QR EQ 4 THEN 1 ELSE LAST QR + 1;
Date_YYYYQQ/A6 WITH COUNTRY='2015' | EDIT(QR) ;
QQ/I2=EDIT(EDIT(Date_YYYYQQ,'$$$$99'));
AQQ/I2=(QQ - 1) * 3 + 3;
AYYYYQQ/A8YYMD=EDIT(Date_YYYYQQ,'9999') | EDIT(AQQ) | '01' ;
FYYYYQQ/YYQ=AYYYYQQ;
LastYYYYQQ/YYQ=FYYYYQQ - 1;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT 
 COUNTRY LastYYYYQQ
END


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Nicholas Spyrison
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Thanks Martin!

Got it working after running into a multiple hierarchy issue.

One more quick question:

given:
 Date_YYYYQQ/A6 WITH COUNTRY='2015' | EDIT(QR) ;


Could someone explain what "WITH COUNTRY" is doing? is it tying Date_YYYYQQ to the COUNTRY Grain level?


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