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Set Century & DTOC different in VFP6??

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From

08/01/2001 10:34:17

James Weil
Flushing, New York, United States

To

08/01/2001 10:32:19

Rudy Phillips
Clearwater, Florida, United States

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Forum:

Visual FoxPro

Category:

Coding, syntax & commands

Title:

Re: Set Century & DTOC different in VFP6??

Miscellaneous

Thread ID:

00460546

Message ID:

00460583

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10

>James,
>
>If SET DATE SHORT the DTOC(DateField) gives 7/2/00. If SET DATE LONG, DTOC(DateField) Saturday, July 01, 2000. What I need (and had with VFP5) is 07/01/2000. I have a LOT of legacy code that grabs the year by using SUBSTR(DTOC(DateField),7,4).

Why not use the year function: STR(YEAR(DateField))

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