>Hi all,
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>I am having a problem doing some calculations and am not sure how to best get around it.
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>I am trying to calculate number of days as follows:
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>45-((date()-[date1])-[date2])
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>The problem I am having is that the first part (date()-[date1] is evaluating to a number and then trying to subrtract the date from it which gives me a operator/operand type mismatch(of course) but how to I get around it, I mean is there a way to subtract 3 dates and getting a number at the end. I have tried changing the parenthesis to have it evalueate all the date fields first but can not seem to get by the error.
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>Thanks for the help
>James

When you do math with 2 dates you get a number. When you do math with a date and a number, you get a new date. So, you can not do math with 3 dates and get a number. You can only get a date because the math with the first 2 dates gives a number which, when used with the 3rd date gives you a new date. Now you are left with the new date and your number [45, in this case]. Therefore all you can get from your equation is a date.