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sumant
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Hello,

I want to capture the month from the users input.
We are not using a HTML launch page for this.
For e.g. if the user inputs the date as 03/01/2010, then I need to capture the month 03 in a variable.
Can you please suggest a method of capturing it?
The sample code is below:

TABLE FILE ORD
PRINT
ORD.DEAL_NUMBER AS 'Contact, #'
WHERE ( ORD.VALUE_DATE GE DT(&FROM_VALUE_DATE.Please enter the From Date.) ) AND ( ORD.VALUE_DATE LE DT(&TO_VALUE_DATE.Please enter the To Date.) );
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
INCLUDE = endeflt,
$
ENDSTYLE
END

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WebFOCUS 7.7.02Windows
Output Formats: Excel, HTML, PDF
 
Posts: 82 | Registered: February 23, 2011Report This Post
Martin
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Hope that your users will always enter the date in the same format: 99/99/9999, otherwise you'll have to play with many function :-)

So considering that the format is kept the same, the month will always be the first two digits and easily be captured using the following:

-SET &MONTH = EDIT(&FROM_VALUE_DATE, '99');

Otherwise here some logic that can be applied to insure to have the month in two digits format :

-SET &DATELEN = ARGLEN(10, &FROM_VALUE_DATE, 'I3');
-SET &SLASHPOS = POSIT(&FROM_VALUE_DATE, &DATELEN, '/', 1, 'I3');
-SET &OUTLEN = &SLASHPOS - 1;
-SET &MTH = SUBSTR(&DATELEN, &FROM_VALUE_DATE, 1, &OUTLEN, &OUTLEN, 'A2');
-SET &MTHLEN = ARGLEN(2, &MTH, 'I2');
-SET &MTHFIX = IF &MTHLEN LT 2 THEN '0' || EDIT(&MTH, '9') ELSE &MTH;

TYPE &MTHFIX


WF 7.6.11 HF4 gen34, WF 7.7.03 gen 253,
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Posts: 18 | Registered: December 06, 2007Report This Post
sumant
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Thanks a lot Martin for providing the logic. Worked well for me.


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