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buddha_d
Pyrite | Level 9

Does anyone know what kind of date format is this? 

 

index(issued_date,'F8'x) ^= 0        or

index(issued_date,'E4'x) ^= 0 

 

Thanks in advance 

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buddha_d
Pyrite | Level 9
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SASKiwi
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The INDEX function only applies to character variables so it is anyone's guess what might type of date might be stored in it. Have you looked?

buddha_d
Pyrite | Level 9

No, but you are correct. Smiley Very Happy

buddha_d
Pyrite | Level 9

No, but you are correct.

ChrisNZ
Tourmaline | Level 20

You are scanning a string for two characters.

Depending on the encoding, E4 is probably ä (latin small letter a with diaeresis)

See http://www.ascii-code.net/

 

 

buddha_d
Pyrite | Level 9

thanks

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