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[SOLVED]Format Error doing a DATEDIF for an Age Calculation
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I am doing and DATEDIF to calculate an age calculation. I am getting the following error when I use the following COMPUTE

 
     COMPUTE AgeAtGrad/A2 = DATEDIF(CEHOLD.SEG01.SYVPER1_BIRTH_DATE, J2.SEG01.EndDateYYMD , 'Y');
 


(FOC282) RESULT OF EXPRESSION IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE FORMAT OF FIELD AgeAtGrad

I am not sure that I am doing this the best/most efficient way. Any suggestions on how to do an age calculation or what format the DATEDIF result should be would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi Trudy,

I'm pretty sure the DATEDIF function is going to return an Integer but you're trying to set that value to Alphanumeric. So I'm wondering if that is the issue? I bet if you switch AgeAtGrad/A2 to something like AgeAtGrad/I9 it will probably work.


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Thanks for the answers, worked great.


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