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Age function or algorithm?
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00169602
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>Does someone have a routine that calculates someones's age based upon the current date?
>
>I have written one, but it does not account for leap years so it's basically useless and I don't want to reinvent the wheel. It's probably a common routine out there.

The easy way:
FUNCTION AGE
LPARAMETER dBirth, dWhen
LOCAL nYears
nYears = YEAR(dWhen) - YEAR(dBirth)
IF GOMONTH(dBirth, 12*nYears)>dWhen
nYears = nYears-1
ENDIF
RETURN nYears
HTH!
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