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John_Edwards
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I don't know why this is hard, but how do I concatenate a quarter value such as Q1 2010 into a string? Is it with EDIT? DATECVT? I can't find an output format that actually produces a simple representation of quarters.

This gives me the first day of the quarter -- DATECVT(ENCOUNTER_DATE_START, 'MDYY', 'A8MDYY') and I need that too. Is there a format I can put in that will just give me the text representation of a quarter date?

J.

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Prarie
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Is this what you are looking for?

DEFINE FILE CAR
TODAY/MDYY = &MDYY;
QUARTER/QYY = TODAY;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR
TODAY
QUARTER
END

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jfr99
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This is one way to make a string:

DEFINE FILE CAR
SD_MDYY/MDYY = &MDYY;
QTR/A7 = EDIT(DATECVT(SD_MDYY, 'MDYY', 'Q'),'Q9 ') | EDIT(DATECVT(SD_MDYY, 'MDYY', 'YY'));
END
-*
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
SD_MDYY
QTR
END


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Francis Mariani
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Very nice, jfr99.


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John_Edwards
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Yep -- jfr99's got it. Thank you very much!

J.



 
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