Re: Query problems

[Billy Rowe <billyrowe@xxxxxxx>]

Jim Langston wrote:
> We have some dates in MMDDYY format stored as numbers.
> 
> In a query I define some result fields as:
> Temp1      ARINDT / 100
> Temp2      Temp1 * 100
> InvYear     ARINDT - Temp2
> InvMonth   ARINDT / 10000
> 
> Then, in my select records I have
>             InvYear      EQ     98
> AND    InvMonth   GE     10
> OR       InvYear      EQ     99
> AND    InvMonth    LE     03
> 
> The whole idea being to get the range of records from 10/01/98 to
> 03/31/99
>



 
We prefer to work with dates using the DATE data type within a query
as follows:

Temp1   subst(digits(ARINDT) 5 2) '/' subst(digits(ARINDT) 1 2) '/'
        subst(digits(ARINDT) 3 2)
ARIDATE date(temp1)

Then select by range:
ARIDATE RANGE  '10/01/98' '03/01/99'

Note:  Your date data type is in the format of what your job is.


Hope this helps,

Billy

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