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Suzy
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I want to highlight the dates in a report that are in the past. How do I compare these dates?

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Darin Lee
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First, the documentation is full or references and functions regarding dates. This forum is as well. Search through those for additional information. Second, &YYMD (and its variations) is the reference to the system date. It can be used in DEFINE/COMPUTE statements, WHERE statements, etc.


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Well this is what I have been trying.
  
COMPUTE CURR_DATE/MDYY='&DATEMDYY'; NOPRINT
COMPUTE PASS_EXPIRED/MDYY=PWD_EXPIRY_DT; NOPRINT
COMPUTE SHOWEXPIRED/A1=IF PASS_EXPIRED LT CURR_DATE THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N'; NOPRINT


And I'm just getting this error.
(FOC282) RESULT OF EXPRESSION IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE FORMAT OF FIELD:
PASS_EXPIRED


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What is the format of PWD_EXPIRY_DT to begin with?

Take of your noprint and the last compute and that is probably where you are really getting the error. You probably need a function to make it really MDYY
 
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See if this helps.

DATE_CREATED is in a date format.

-SET &TODAY = &YYMD;
-SET &TDAY = AYMD (&TODAY, 0, 'I8YYMD');

COMPUTE DATE_CREATED1/I8YYMD = DATE_CREATED;
COMPUTE DATE_CHECK/A1 = IF &TDAY LT DATE_CREATED1 THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N';


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Darin Lee
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I don't think you can compare ddates in smart date format using LT, GT, etc. If you convert to alpha, it would have to be A8YYMD to compare. I think Spence's suggestion would get you what you need (he's using I8YYMD which you could use for numeric comparison operators.)


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I have this in the define of a program that does something similar:

NEWTIME/HYYMDIA WITH TODATE=DT(&YYMD 00:00AM);
NEWDAY/HYYMDS = NEWTIME;

PASSED/A1 = IF NEWDAY FROM FROMDATE TO TODATE THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N';

-ABT


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Thank you Spence that works!


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