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Function to calculate days in a month?
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14/12/2000 21:20:29
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00453660
Message ID:
00453732
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>Is there a built-in fuction that will return the days in a month from a particular date.
>

FUNCTION DaysInMonth(tdDate)
RETURN DAY(GOMONTH(tdDate-DAY(tdDate)+1,1) - 1)

I'd add error checking - if the parameter passed in is a datetime rather than a date, you need to use the TTOD() of the parameter. You can also just write this in-line.

>Example:
>
>31 days in 1/2/2000
>29 days in 2/2/2000
>but
>28 days in 2/2/2001
>
>I know I could wite a fucntion which will return the days of the 12 months and to include the function to accomated the leap year. I am lokking for a built-in function.
>
>Thanks in advance.
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