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I'm just back into WebFocus after a hiatus of several years. It's coming back slowly but surely, but I'm having quite a time trying to sort this problem out. I have two date fields that are usually the same date, but sometimes there is a span between the two. (The dates are both HYYMDs in the master and I've DEFINEd them to YYMD within the master.)

I need to calculate the number of days between the two dates, but I also need to bypass weekends. So if the first date is a Thursday, and the second date is Tuesday, the result would be 3 (Friday, Monday, Tuesday). I'm totally stumped... if anyone has any ideas I'd greatly appreciate it.

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Do a forum search on BUSDAYS or business days. There are lots of examples.

Do this check:
? SET BUSDAYS
The default is Monday through Friday.


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The DATEDEIF function should provide what you're looking for, if you use Weekday as the difference unit.

Docs: DATEDIF


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Perfect... the DATEDIF gave me exactly what I needed. That must be a new function, I don't remember it from my old days.

Thank you so much!!


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DATEDIF has been around since at least v5.3, which began life in the last millennium Smiler


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And you can set up a Holiday file as well and DATEDIF along with other DATE routines will take holidays into account as well if you are doing Business Days.


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