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.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Trudy,

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.

Thanks for the answers, worked great.