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KyleM
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I'm having difficulties converting P9 format to a date format of YYMD.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

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Posts: 4 | Registered: June 04, 2008Report This Post
Darin Lee
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Sounds like you need that handy little book about 1001 Ways to Work with Dates or something like that. It's just a matter of being familiar with all the ways that dates can exists. It's easy to convert from I8YYMD to YYMD and from P8 to I8 so redefine P9 to I8YYMD to YYMD

OR

use PTOA function to convert the P9 to A8 then A8YYMD, then YYMD.

The real question is whether or not the P9 field is an actual date like 20090107 or if it is some offset from a specific date or a Julian date or something like that. Kind of odd that a date would be stored as a P9 (but I've seen stranger things in data.)

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Darin


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Waz
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As Darin indicates, there are many ways.

If the P9 has a number that is a date, any of the formats, then its easy.

Simple example, there are many in this forum.
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COMPUTE
P9FIELD/P9 = 20090109 ;
I8YYMDFIELD/I8YYMD = P9FIELD ;
YYMDFIELD/YYMD = I8YYMDFIELD ;

BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
END


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