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Bethany
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I have an A30 field that may store a date. My report needs to determine if that field has a date and if so compare it to the current date. The problem is that the dates are in all kinds of formats:

01/01/2000
1/1/2000
1/1/00
12/1/2000
1/12/2000
1/12/00
etc, etc, etc....

Does anyone know if a good way to convert these into actual date formats? If anything about this can be considered good, all of the dates appear to be in day, month, year format.

Thanks


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TexasStingray
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are they always in month first, day second, year last. and are they always seperated by a slash /




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Bethany
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yes. they do appear to be in day, month, year order and there are slashes between.


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<JG>
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Bethany if its always Day / month / year the following will accomodate 1950 to 2049.

TEXTDATE is your A30 input date

DEFINE FILE STANDARDS
ADAY/I2=EDIT(GETTOK(TEXTDATE, 30, 1, '/', 2, 'A2'));
AMONTH/I2=EDIT(GETTOK(TEXTDATE, 30, 2, '/', 2, 'A2'));
AYEAR/A4=GETTOK(TEXTDATE, 30, 3, '/', 4, 'A4');
IYEAR/I4=IF (EDIT(AYEAR) LT 50) THEN EDIT(AYEAR) + 2000 ELSE
IF ((EDIT(AYEAR) GE 50) AND (EDIT(AYEAR) LT 100)) THEN EDIT(AYEAR) + 1900 ELSE
EDIT(AYEAR) ;
NEWDATE/A10=EDIT(ADAY) || '/' || EDIT(AMONTH) || '/' || EDIT(IYEAR);
END
TABLE FILE STANDARDS
PRINT TEXTDATE NEWDATE
END
 
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Bethany
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Many thanks!


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