Re: Last Day of Last Month

Well, I've done this a bit in other languages that had date fields.
Basically,
I would build a date MM/01/YY by taking the current month and current
year,
and making the day 01.  Then subtract one day.  And it would be the last
day of
the previous month.

I am not sure if we can do date math (haven't played around with date
fields
all that much yet) but if you can, this should work fine.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Brad McDaniel wrote:

>
>
> I am writing some CL's to automate some monthly jobs that are usually
> submitted through user menus.  This particular CL submits a job with
> the prior month and year as the parms (let's say &YEAR (4) and &MONTH
> (2)).  Then, the CL does a STRQMQRY with the year, month, and day of
> the last day of that month.  Does anyone have a sample of the easiest
> way to figure out the last day of a particular month (i.e.  if run
> today, the year and month would be 1999 09, and the CL would need to
> pass 19990930 to the query.)?
>
> I know the method for passing parms with STRQMQRY, I am just wondering
> if anyone has some code laying around that gives you the last day of
> the month (accounting for leap years also).
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad McDaniel
> Information Services
> Annuity Board, SBC
> http://www.absbc.org
> 214-720-6546

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