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IMblessed
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I have 2 dates that I need to determine the number of days between them. One date is an A25V and the other is A10. The A25V field is displayed as 2008/01/11 so is the A10 field.


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GinnyJakes
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Extract the date portion without the slashes into another field (can use EDIT) then use EDIT to convert to I8YYMD. Then equate the I field to a smartdate field, format YYMD. Then just subtract the two.


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date1 = A25V = '2008/01/11 '
date2 = A10 = '2008/01/11'

date1a/I8YYMD = EDIT(date1,'9999$99$99');
date1b/YYMD = date1a;

date2a/I8YYMD = EDIT(date2,'9999$99$99');
date2b/YYMD = date2a

difference/I6 = date1b - date2b;


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IMblessed
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I'm sorry the fields are 11/28/2008 instead of 2008/11/28.


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Then do what Ken and I suggested and move them instead to MDYY fields, THEN convert using an equality to YYMD and do the subtract.


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The A25V field is Start_Date and the A10 field is Episode_Load_Date. The Start_dt1 field give me an error stating it (FOC282) RESULT OF EXPRESSION IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE FORMAT OF FIELD:START_DT1.
Am I missing someting.


START_DT1/I8MDYY = EDIT(START_DATE,'99$99$9999');
START_DT2/MDYY = START_DT1;
EP_DT1/I8MDYY = EDIT(EPISODE_LOAD_DATE,'99$99$9999');
EP_DT2/MDYY = EP_DT1;
DAYS_DIFF/I6 = EP_DT2- START_DT2;


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IM,

You can't do an edit/mask directly into an integer field. You either have to do a double edit or create an A first then an I. You are going to have the same problem with the other date. You might want to look in the Using Functions manual and read up on EDIT. Here is your code with the first date using the double EDIT.

START_DT1/I8MDYY = EDIT(EDIT(START_DATE,'99$99$9999'));
START_DT2/MDYY = START_DT1;
EP_DT1/I8MDYY = EDIT(EPISODE_LOAD_DATE,'99$99$9999');
EP_DT2/MDYY = EP_DT1;
DAYS_DIFF/I6 = EP_DT2- START_DT2;


I will leave you to fix the rest of it.


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Ginny
I has a senior moment
Thank you.


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