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Finding the payperiod that included 12th of month
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17/07/2006 18:59:04
 
 
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17/07/2006 18:56:31
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01137078
Message ID:
01137091
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>>>This kind of logic should work.
>>>
>>>IF BETWEEN(12, DAY(PpBeg), DAY(PpEnd))
>>> *--Select the rec.
>>>ENDIF
>>>
>>>-Matt
>>
>>Won't work if the pay period spans across 2 months (last week of month, 1st week of next month). BETWEEN must have the smaller comparison number first.
>>
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>>Update:
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>>No, that wouldn't work, either. Say the dates for the pay period are 6/20 to 7/4. The 12th isn't between those 2 dates.
>
>It wouldn't find what it wasn't supposed to find - which is just what was required. I also first thought this was wrong, but it's actually right. So if neither 6/12 nor 7/12 is between 6/20 and 7/4, good, don't include that period.

That's true, but I think it's right for the wrong reason. It all depends on what constitutes a pay period, I'd think. BETWEEN wouldn't find it if it was 6/30 to 7/13 either, in which case it would NOT be right that it wasn't found.
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP

foxcentral.net
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