I got a date of the type SYDATUM and wondering how to format it in a format like m/d/y.
I've found some snippets on the web, but they were not really helpful.
-thanks yor your help.
You should be more specific - what exactly do you want to do with the date (use type D internally, it's shorter and does the same thing).
Do you want to WRITE it to a list screen? Use the formatting options described in the documentation and online help:
WRITE l_my_date MM/DD/YYYY.
Do you want to convert it to a text variable? Very similar:
WRITE l_my_date TO l_my_text MM/DD/YYYY.
To set the date format in a SAPscript form, see the SET DATE MASK command.
To print the formatted date in a SmartForm, use the WRITE command and a temporary variable (yes, ugly, I know...)
Most controls (ALV Grid for example) should take care of the format automatically.
However - be careful when hard-coding the format into your application. Usually you don't have to do this because the system automatically uses the format specified in the user master data. This ensures that every user will see the date formatted according to their locale settings.
Normally it's better to export the date into the plant level country specific date format:
if w_country is initial.
select single LAND1
from T001W
into w_country
where WERKS eq w_the_plant.
endif.
SET COUNTRY w_country.
write w_the_date to w_export.
for example 03/04/2002 could be different date in different country.
You can try the keyword TRANSLATE. Alternatively suggest you could have a look at this link
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I have tried everything that I can think of to get the right date format. Can anybody help with this RPA-problem in UiPath. I have used the 'get text' activity to get the folder date and after that tried to use the
Datetime.ParseExact(Str variable,"dd/MM/yyyy", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).
It gives me the error:
Assign: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
Your help is much appreciated.
edit: I have now sought help from a friend who figured it out. The error was in the string, which could not be seen, because there was an invisible character in the string that I extracted through 'get text' activity. The solution is in 2 steps:
assign another variable to the exact same date and use an if statement to find out if these two strings are equal and you will find out that they are not.
Now use a regex to capture only digits and slash/hyphen which will get rid of the invisible character.
Try to use "dd_MM_yyyy" instead of "dd/MM/yyyy".
The reason is because UiPath/VB.Net has a habit of using US date formatting even though you're using Culture Info...It's a real pain
Try this:
pDateString = "21/02/2020"
Assign a Date type variable = Date.ParseExact(pDateString,"dd/MM/yyyy",nothing)
Here we're telling the parser to use English format date...The Date type returned will be in US format but you can simply convert back to uk IF needed by using something like:
pDateString("dd/MM/yyyy")
I'm pretty new to progress and I want to ask a question.
How do I change variable (string) length in runtime?
ex.
define variable cname as char.
define variable clen as int.
cname= "".
DO cnts = 1 TO 5.
IF prc[cnts] <> "" THEN DO:
clen = clen + LENGTH(prc[cnts]).
cname = cname + prc[cnts].
END.
END.
Put cname format '???' at 1. /here change variable length/
Thanks for the reply
If the PUT statement is what you want to change, then
PUT UNFORMATTED cname.
will write the entire string out without having to worry about the length of the FORMAT phrase.
If you need something formatted, then
PUT UNFORMATTED STRING(cname, fill("X", clen)).
will do what you want. Look up the "STRING()" function in the ABL Ref docs.
In Progress 4GL all data is variable length.
This is one of the big differences between Progress and lots of other development environments. (And in my opinion a big advantage.)
Each datatype has a default format, which you can override, but that is only for display purposes.
Display format has no bearing on storage.
You can declare a field with a display format of 3 characters:
define variable x as character no-undo format "x(3)".
And then stuff 60 characters into the field. Progress will not complain.
x = "123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890".
It is extremely common for 4gl application code to over-stuff variables and fields.
(If you then use SQL-92 to access the data you will hear much whining and gnashing of teeth from your SQL client. This is easily fixable with the "dbtool" utility.)
You change the display format when you define something:
define variable x as character no-undo format "x(30)".
or when you use it:
put x format "x(15)".
or
display x format "x(43)".
(And in many other ways -- these are just a couple of easy examples.)
Regardless of the display format the length() function will report the actual length of the data.
I'm using Robin Herbot's jQuery Input Masks plugin on my project.
It's very good but I need sql timestamp mask: yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss I don't konw if i'm doing something wrong but it seems datetime alias shows only hours and minutes.
I've tried some changes on mask but not successful.
Thanks.
I see the question is from long ago, I also came here while trying to learn jquery.inputmask.
Remember to always include what you have done (code sample) when asking a question. Even if it is wrong/not working, it will help the one providing an answer, and others looking for answers.
In general terms, I found it somewhat helpful to read through the jquery.inputmask.xxx.extensions.js files, where xxx = date in this instance. In there you can see how more complex aliases are constructed from more basic ones (by overriding the basic ones), and you can apply the same ideas in constructing a new alias if you don't find a useful one.
Code that should work for your case:
$("#tsfield").inputmask("timestamp", {
mask: "y/1/2 h:s:s",
placeholder: "yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss",
separator: "/",
alias: "datetime",
hourFormat: "24"
});
... which creates a new alias named timestamp, overriding datetime, and applies it to the input with id="tsfield".
If you have more than one input field with the same input mask on your page, I find it is better to create the new alias just once in your $(document).ready(), and then apply it by name to each field (refer to jquery.inputmask.date.extensions.js and documentation for instructions).
That question is not about the code produced by the IDE, it is about IDE itself.
Phpstorm/Intellij always shows dates in "Month/DayOfMonth/Year Hour:Minute" format like 4/16/14 11:40 AM
You can check version control view, local history view or changes view. Is it possible to change the Phpstorm/Intellij date format via GUI or some setting file.
For Live Templates, you can specify the desired format as a date() function parameter (see http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/webhelp/edit-template-variables-dialog.html)
For file templates, I can suggest using separate variables for different date fields. For example, ${YEAR}/${MONTH}/${DAY} instead of ${DATE}
as for version controls, date format is not configurable and different for different VCs. There is no way to set the date format to be used everywhere in the IDE - please vote for IDEA-99114. In general, it depends on the system locale
see also comments in IDEABKL-6449
I'm working in a web application using VB.NET. There is also VisualBasic code mixed in it, in particular the Date variable and the Month function of VB.
The problem is this part:
Month("10/01/2008")
On the servers, I get 10 (October) as the month (which is supposed to be correct). On my machine, I get 1 (January) (which is supposed to be wrong).
Two of my colleagues (on their own machines) get different answers, one got 1, the other got 10.
The question is, why is this so?
On my end, I can solve the problem by using .NET's DateTime's Parse (or ParseExact) function to force everything to be "dd/MM/yyyy" format. This works. I'm just wondering why there's an inconsistency.
Extra info: I know the parameter for Month function is supposed to be a Date variable. The code used a string as parameter, and Option Strict was off, and the developers mainly let VB do its own conversion thing. (Legacy code maintenance has a lot of inertia...)
If it helps, the version of Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll on the servers is 7.10.6310.4 (under the Framework folder v1.1.4322). The version on mine (and my 2 colleagues') machine is 7.10.6001.4.
Edit: Regional settings for all machines already set to dd/MM/yyyy format (short date format).
This normally has to do with the regional settings, and more specifically the date/time formats. If you set these formats so that they are all the same on the machines you're testing on, the results should be consistent.
Your idea of using ParseExact is definitely the better solution to go with, IMHO.
This is because the runtime has to convert your given value "10/01/2008" which is indeed a string implicitly to the DateTime datatype.
When converting strings to dates and the other way round, the string format depends on the locale settings of windows.
See this link on msdn.
In this article a way to specify a date literal which is independent of your locale settings:
Just enclose the date with the sign # and specify it in the form mm/dd/yyyy:
So the code
Month(#10/01/2008#)
should give you the answer 10 on any machine.
Ther a two more worarounds given in that msdn article:
1. Use the Format Function with predifned Date/Time Format
To convert a Date literal to the
format of your locale, or to a custom
format, supply the literal to the
Format Function, specifying either
Predefined Date/Time Formats (Format
Function) or User-Defined Date/Time
Formats (Format Function). The
following example demonstrates this.
MsgBox("The formatted date is " &
Format(#5/31/1993#, "dddd, d MMM
yyyy"))
2. Use the DateTime-Class Constructor to construt the right DateTime value
Alternatively, you can use one of the
overloaded constructors of the
DateTime structure to assemble a date
and time value. The following example
creates a value to represent May 31,
1993 at 12:14 in the afternoon.
Dim dateInMay As New
System.DateTime(1993, 5, 31, 12, 14,
0)