> >One section of the data contains the date in the following format YYYDDD
> where YYY is the year (097) and DDD is the day number of the current year
> (245). I'm quite familiar with VFP's date functions and have converted
> form a number of formats in the past, but this one has me stumped.
Unless
> I have completely missed it, I don't know of a "day of year" function in
> VFP.
>
> What about about 245 to the first day of the year which will give you the
> current date for 245th day.
244 should be added, really. 1 stands for first day of year, so if you
added 1 to first day of year you'd get january the 2nd...
Here's a little aid, FDOY() function (first day of year):
Para _date
if empty(_date)
_date=date()
endif
Retu gomo(_date,1-month(_date))-day(_date)+1
Besides, I've seen this YYYDDD format already... on meat cans :)
