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info4pal
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Hi,

Iam using the below format for date:
COMPUTE ALPHA_DATE/A20 = HCNVRT(DATEPARAM, '(H17)', 17, 'A20');
COMPUTE MYDATE/HYYMDS = HINPUT(20, ALPHA_DATE, 10,'HYYMDS');

The output would be 2014/04/28 5:52:39PM
but I need it in this format : 4/28/2014 5:52:39 PM

Could anyone please let me know how can this be done.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Regards!

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Ram Prasad E
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Try below compute instead.
COMPUTE ALPHA_DATE/A20 = HCNVRT(DATEPARAM, '(H17)', 17, 'A20');
COMPUTE MYDATE/HMDYYSB = HINPUT(20, ALPHA_DATE, 10,'HMDYYSB');


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info4pal
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Hi Ram,

Thanks a lot for the solution!
It helped!

Regards!


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Alan B
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This conversion does not need to be done in 2 phases.
COMPUTE ALPHA_DATE/A23 = HCNVRT(input_date,'(HMDYYSB)',23,'A23');
or
COMPUTE INT_DATE/HMDYYSB = input_date;


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jgelona
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If DATEPARM is your date time field and the format is HYYMDS, to print it with a format of HMDYYSB, just do this:

TABLE FILE XXXXX
PRINT DATEPARM/HMDYYSB
END


With the FOCUS language, you have USAGE/display and ACTUAL/internal formats. The USAGE format can be changed on the fly by doing what I did above. If you have a 60 character field and all you want to display is the first 20 characters, just use FIELD/A20. There is no need to do a SUBSTR or EDIT first.


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info4pal
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Hi,

Thanks a lot Alan and Jgelona for the responses and for the solution!
This worked too!!

Regards!


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