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cldiaz
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I've searched the forum, documentation and 1001 ways to work with dates and can't find the answer so I'm hoping someone will have some advice for me.

 -SET &INPUT_DATE = &YYMD;
-SET &DATECVT = DATECVT (&INPUT_DATE, 'I8YYMD', 'YYMD');
-SET &DATEADD = DATEADD(&DATECVT, 'D', '-9');
-SET &LAST_WEEK_MDYY = DATECVT (&DATEADD, 'YYMD', 'I8MDYY');
-SET &LAST_WEEK_YYMD = DATECVT (&DATEADD, 'YYMD', 'I8YYMD');

-TYPE LastWeek_MDYY = &LAST_WEEK_MDYY
-TYPE LastWeek_YYMD = &LAST_WEEK_YYMD


For the I8MDYY value I get 8302017, I'm looking to get 08302017. When I do this I8YYMD, I get 20170830. I must be missing something but can't figure out what it is! Any advice is appreciated!

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MartinY
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For the I8MDYY value I get 8302017


Format I8 is an Integer, a numeric value. Left side zero (0) are useless in numeric representation. So while the month will be below 10, you won't have it display as 08302017.


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BabakNYC
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If you need the 0 for display consistency, you can convert the Integer to an Alpha using this code:

 -SET &LAST_WEEK_MDYY=IF &LAST_WEEK_MDYY.LENGTH LE 7 THEN '0'||&LAST_WEEK_MDYY ELSE &LAST_WEEK_MDYY;


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jfr99
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-SET &LAST_WEEK_I8MDYY = DATECVT((DATEADD((DATECVT (&YYMD, 'I8YYMD', 'YYMD')),'D', -07)), 'YYMD','I8MDYY');
-SET &LAST_WEEK_A8MDYY = DATECVT((DATEADD((DATECVT (&YYMD, 'I8YYMD', 'YYMD')),'D', -07)), 'YYMD','A8MDYY');
-*
-TYPE LAST_WEEK_I8MDYY -------- &LAST_WEEK_I8MDYY
-TYPE LAST_WEEK_A8MDYY -------- &LAST_WEEK_A8MDYY


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cldiaz
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Thanks all of you! Based on the advice I just changed my format to an A8MDYY instead of I8MDYY and it now works as expected.


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jgelona
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cldiaz, here's why that worked. You have to remember that in Dialogue Manager, every variable is an alphanumeric string. However, when you specified a I8MDYY format, and since the variable was all numbers, DM treated it like a integer and trimmed the leading zero. Using A8MDYY left the leading zero. When I see issues on here about DM, a great deal of the time it is because the person asking the question doesn't know or has never been told that all local and global variables are alphanumeric strings.


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