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Mark Allen Harris
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I have an A10V field with dates that look like M-D-YYYY (1-15-1985). The year is always four characters but the month and date can either be one or two characters, so the length of the sting and the position of the dashes vary. The field is left justified.

I'd like to be able to change this to an MDYY format.

Is there a date function that I can use in a define statement to accomplish the conversion?

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Posts: 7 | Registered: August 27, 2012Report This Post
Waz
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There may be a more direct way, but this seems to work.

DEFINE FILE CAR
 ADATE/A10V = '1-15-1985' ;
 M/I2 = EDIT(GETTOK(ADATE,10,1,'-',2,'A2')) ;
 D/I2 = EDIT(GETTOK(ADATE,10,2,'-',2,'A2')) ;
 A8DATE/A8MDYY = EDIT(M) | EDIT(D) | GETTOK(ADATE,10,3,'-',4,'A4') ;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT ADATE
M D
A8DATE
BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
END


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..and from this A8DMYY it is an easy step to a real smartdate.
If you can you should try to find the perfect book about dates in webfocus.
It gives you many many tricks and is worth all the 25 u$ I payed for it.

http://documentation.informati...etail.asp?docid=2026

I just noticed they raised the price ...




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Alan B
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If this is a field in an MFD, you can use DATEPATTERN.
.......,USAGE=MDYY,ACTUAL=A10V,DATEPATTERN='[mm]-[dd]-[YYYY]',$

Check the 'Describing Data With WebFOCUS Language' manual.


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Mark Allen Harris
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(Resolved) Thanks for the help. This worked really well.


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