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thebrettd
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Hey guys. I have a requirement to display a date in a different format than it is stored in our table.

So I used the following command to get the format that I want in a PDF:
STRT_DTE/MDYYYY = HDATE(ARL_START_DATE, 'MDYYYY');

The problem is that the report is too wide to fit on 1 page, so I would like to spit out excel reports instead.

However when I run the same code but produce excel output, I dont get dates at all in that column, just large integers.

Whats the deal?


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Posts: 26 | Registered: October 30, 2006Report This Post
Leah
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quote:
However when I run the same code but produce excel output, I dont get dates at all in that column, just large integers.

Are you doing excel or exl2k the second one keeps formatting.


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Tony A
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Try using the alpha type of format for your dates - A8MDYY

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Danny-SRL
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Hi,
I ran the following without any problem:
DEFINE FILE CAR
TDY/DMYY='&DATEDMYY';
N/I3 WITH COUNTRY = LAST N + 1;
CDATE/DMYY WITH COUNTRY=TDY + N;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CDATE
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K
END


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