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FOCdeveloper
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Hi All

When comparing two YYM fields, get the error
(FOC178) THE ADDITION OF TWO OR MORE DATE FIELDS IS INVALID

All I am doing is comparing the two YYM dates in the DEFINE..

Thanks
 
-* Go back 11 months from the date user entered
RPT_TO/MDYY=DATEADD(RPT_DATE, 'M', -11);

-* Tran Date from DB
TRAN_YRMO1/A6=GLRE_ACCT_YEAR | GLRE_ACCT_MTH;
TRAN_YRMO/A6YYM=TRAN_YRMO1;

-* back month at a time
RPT_YRMO11/YYM=DATEADD(RPT_TO, 'M', -1);

-*Sample output
-*TRAN_YRMO RPT_YRMO11 
-*2012/10 2012/01 

DEFINE FILE ...
-* Create Monthly Buckets
-******> error is triggered by this line 
GLRE_LOC1/A6      = IF TRAN_YRMO EQ RPT_YRMO1  THEN GLRE_LOC_ID ELSE ' ';
..
END

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Francis Mariani
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Where is RPT_YRMO1 computed or defined? I don't see it in the code you posted. If it happens to be RPT_YRMO11, I wouldn't be comparing a YYM column to an A6YYM column (though I haven't tested if this would work).


Francis


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FOCdeveloper
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Thanks Francis

I was just giving an example .. I converted A6YYM TO YYM.. though it displays both fields as yyyy/mo dates, but in comparison its different, perhaps internally these are not the same values..

TRAN_YRMO/YYM is a result of direct conversion from a date field.
RPT_YRMO/YYM is a result of DATEADD funtion

I think I will go back to using the Alpha char

How do I convert YYM (2013/01) format to Char (201301)?

Thanks


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Francis Mariani
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One of many methods:

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES
COMPUTE MY_DATE/YYM = '201410';

COMPUTE MY_DATE_ALPHA1/A6YYM = MY_DATE; NOPRINT
COMPUTE MY_DATE_ALPHA2/A6 = MY_DATE_ALPHA1;
BY COUNTRY
END


It might help if you post your complete code, we could probably trace the dates and see what's going wrong...


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Neelima
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You can also use DATECVT function.

DEFINE FILE CAR
FIRST_DATE/YYM='201410';
SECOND_DATE/YYM='201412';
FIRST_ALPHA_DATE/A6=DATECVT(FIRST_DATE, 'YYM', 'A6YYM');
SECOND_ALPHA_DATE/A6=DATECVT(SECOND_DATE, 'YYM', 'A6YYM');
END
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES
PRINT
FIRST_DATE
SECOND_DATE
FIRST_ALPHA_DATE
SECOND_ALPHA_DATE
BY COUNTRY
END

Neelima


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FOCdeveloper
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Thank You Francis and Neelima.. Problem solved..


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