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KellyT
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I have tried using the HName to pull the month from a date and have been unable to get it to work.

I am able to pull the month in Integer using DPART but they really want the Month in words rather than numbers.

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RSquared
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please post the code that doesn't work. I have used 'HNAME' and it works.


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KellyT
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MTH/A10=HNAME(today,'MONTH','A10')


Error:
Invalid Type Of Argument #1 for user Function HName


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BabakNYC
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What's the format of today field?


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Francis Mariani
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HNAME requires the date to be date-time format.

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY NOPRINT
COMPUTE HTODAY/HYYMD = HDTTM('&YYMD', 8, 'HYYMD');
COMPUTE MTH/A10=HNAME(HTODAY,'MONTH','A10');
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
END


Francis


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Francis Mariani
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If you're brave, you can try it in one statement:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY NOPRINT

COMPUTE MTH/A10=HNAME( HDTTM('&YYMD', 8, 'HYYMD'), 'MONTH', 'A10');

WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
END


Francis


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eric.woerle
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Why bother converting it at all? There is a data type for the month name. Mtr

 TABLE FILE YOUR_TABE
SUM YOUR_DATE/Mtr
BY YOUR_DATE
END


You can also use the FPRINT function to convert it to alpha if needed, but if you just want to display it, I wouldn't bother converting it from a smart date.


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