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jammer
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Is there a clever way to determine the number of months elapsed where I have two columns of type integer as follows

Column A) 200706
Column B) 200901

The result should be 17 months elapsed.

(I can do it but takes me a few defines to get my result!)

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Darin Lee
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Try the DATEDIF function - you can ask for # of days, months, years, etc. Details in the documentation. Make your integer columns I6YYM as a starter


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Edward Wolfgram
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Just convert to newdates and subtract. 


DEFINE FILE CAR                  
MYA/I6YYM WITH COUNTRY = 200706 ;
MYB/I6YYM WITH COUNTRY = 200901 ;
MYDA/YYM = MYA ;                 
MYDB/YYM = MYB ;                 
DIFF/I4 = MYDA - MYDB ;          
END                              
TABLE FILE CAR                   
PRINT MYA MYB MYDA MYDB DIFF     
IF RECORDLIMIT EQ 1              
END                              
-RUN


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jammer
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Thank you both - I did it as Edward suggested although the dateif may have worked also

This was much better that how I was trying to do it!


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