>Help!
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>I need to be able to display data from a DATETIME field as well as a CURRENCY field in a messagebox/ wait window and need to convert the data to a string.
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>Is there any function to get the date and time as a string??
DTOC(
DateTime), DMY(
DateTime) or MDY(
DateTime) can extract the date as a character expression in several formats, while TTOC(
DateTime,2) will extract the time as a character expression. You can put them together to make what you need.
Currency data is best converted to strings using the TRANSFORM() function.
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>eg the DATETIME field called Dtime1 has data 12/07/1999 14:23:44
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With SET CENTURY ON,
DTOC(Dtime1) + ' ' + TTOC(Dtime1,2) does what you want.
>I need to display this the same way and need as a result a string as above "12/07/1999 14:23:44"
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>How do I do this without extensive manipulation of hours(), minutes() etc??
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>
>Bernard
