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active  Topic # 994  Date Comparison

24/11/2004 @ 22:22
by Mike Featherstone

Anonymous
Before I go and write an overly complex routine to do this (), does anyone know of a simple way of comparing a pair of iziBasic date strings and determining which is the earlier?

Thanks

Mike
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24/11/2004 @ 23:05
by aldweb

Anonymous

visitor
 Hello Mike,

Nice to see you here

The easy way to compare two dates is to put them in this format:
YYYYMMDD (Year Month Day)
And if you want to compare time also:
YYYYMMDDHHmmss (Year Month Day Hour Minute Second)

Example:
' get 24/11/2004 today
D$­ญญญ=DATE$­ญญญ
' transform to 20041124
A$­ญญญ=RIGHT$­ญญญ(D$­ญญญ,4)+MID$­ญญญ(D$­ญญญ,4,2)+LEFT$­ญญญ(D$­ญญญ,2)


Now, you can compare it with any other date formated the same way.
Example:
B$­ญญญ="20041201"
IF A$­ ญญญ< B$­ญญญ THEN 
  PRINT "Normal!"
ELSE
  PRINT "Strange..."
ENDIF


I hope my answer helps you

Cheers,

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24/11/2004 @ 23:56
by Mike Featherstone

Anonymous

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 Thanks.

I thought that was the format to use but string manipulation has never been my strong point and I couldn't think my way through it.

I would have ended up with a series of integer conversions - doing things the *very* long way round.


Having written a review that said 'I have a use for iziBasic', I thought it time to go and use it for real!
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25/11/2004 @ 22:07
by aldweb

Anonymous

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 I think that it is worth writing it for our friendly iziBasic fellows, Mike's great review is here:
http://www.clieuk.co.uk/izibasic.shtml/

Thanks again Mike for this review. For me, this is a great reward to my work.

Cheers

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26/11/2004 @ 05:20
by Chuck

Anonymous

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 I tried similar date manipulation and the MID$­­ function kept returning a null string. I worked around it by using LEFT$­­ to cut off the string on the right and then RIGHT$­­ to pick off the part I needed.
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26/11/2004 @ 21:50
by Mike Featherstone

Anonymous

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 You're right - 24/04/2004 is returning 200424 rather than 20040424. MID$­­ seems to be malfunctioning.
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26/11/2004 @ 21:53
by aldweb

Anonymous

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 Thank you guys for the information.
I will check for the bug and work on a fix.

Cheers

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26/11/2004 @ 23:19
by aldweb

Anonymous

visitor
 MID$­ญญ is running fine.
It is just a misunderstanding and my own initial mistake given in my sample source code when answering to Mike.

Structure is:
MID$­ญญ(var$­ญญ,1st character,last character)
and not
MID$­ญญ(var$­ญญ,1st character,nb of characters)

So, my example becomes:
' get 24/11/2004 today
D$­ญญญญญญ=DATE$­
ญญญญญญ' transform to 20041124
A$­ญญญญญญ=RIGHT$­ญญญญญญ(D$­ญญญญญญ,4)+MID$­ญญญญญญ(D$­ญญญญญญ,4,5)+LEFT$­ญญญญญญ(D$­ญญญญญญ,2)


Sorry for the mistake.

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26/11/2004 @ 23:32
by aldweb

Anonymous

visitor
 Me again: I just checked and I can tell that last character is not BASIC's standard. I will change this to nb of characters in next release.

So, at the end, it's my mistake anyway

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26/11/2004 @ 23:38
by Mike Featherstone

Anonymous

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 Thanks for the help. I'll use the iziBasic standard for now!
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