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newtofocus
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Hi,

I have a situation where I need to accept a paramter then reformat it and use in the where clause so that the result set from the database is small. Here is the example.

BY
HH_CUST_NUM
WHERE ( CB_MAJ_ACCT_NUM EQ '00004' );
WHERE ( BILL_YEAR EQ '&ENTER_YEAR.Enter the year.' );

BILL_YEAR is a defined field. I want to accept
the year in ccyy format from the user and create a
variable using ENTER_YEAR in the MM/DD/YY format.
Instead of BILL_YEAR I want to use my database field so that I can force the FOCUS to use database fiedl in the where clause.

Any help is appreciated.
 
Posts: 176 | Location: Desplaines | Registered: August 05, 2004Report This Post
Steve C
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To do what you want, you will need to manipulate the input source year to become a full date value. Here is the code:



DEFINE FILE EMPLOYEE
ND/YY = &INPUT_YEAR;
ND1/YYMD=ND;
NEWDT/I8MDYY = DATECVT(ND1, 'YYMD', 'I8MDYY');
END
TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE
BY NEWDT
PRINT EMP_ID LAST_NAME
END


The above converts the year to a full YYMD format, which is set to Jan 1 of the year entered. Then use DATECVT to covert it back to a legacy date (Integer) field in the format of your choice.

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Posts: 44 | Location: New York City | Registered: May 23, 2004Report This Post
Piipster
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Try to avoid manipulating input values as DEFINEd fields. Defined fields are evaluated once for every row of extracted data. Do the manipulation with Dialog Manager Variables.

Try

-PROMPT &ENTER_YEAR.Enter the year.I4.
-SET &TEST_DATE = '01/01/' |
- EDIT(&ENTER_YEAR,'$$99') ;

(if you want the 4 char year just use &ENTER_YEAR)

and in the WHERE statement

WHERE db_date GE '&TEST_DATE';
 
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