>I have a character field containing dates in format "DD-MON-YY", i.e. "12-Jan-03".
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>Has anyone got an easy answer to indexing this field in date order of year-month-day. Is there a function to convert i.e "Jan" to "01", "Feb" to "02" etc.?
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>Regards
>
>Jeff
I don't think VFP has such a function built-in, but it is fairly easy to create a UDF, for instance:
function DateNameToNumber(tcMonth)
tcMonth = upper(tcMonth)
do case
case tcMonth = "JAN"
return "01"
case tcMonth = "FEB"
return "02"
...
case tcMonth = "DEC"
return "12"
otherwise
return "00"
endcase
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