Re: QRY and Dates

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is a special variable for current date, so that is easy. The 
trick is converting your field into a date string representation. 
This means inserting dashes between the year and month and day, since 
SQL does not recognize just the digits as a valid string 
representation. (See the SQL Reference section on string 
representations of dates and times.)

If it is a character field, then do this, using an ISO representation 
- no need to convert explicitly to a date:

select * from yourfile
where substr(datefld,1,4) || '-' || substr(datefld,5,2) || '-' || 
substr(datefld,7,2) >=
current date - 1 day

If the date field is numeric with 8 digits, use

digits(datefld) where I have "datefld" in the example.

At 06:19 AM 1/30/2006, you wrote:

> Hi, I've got a file containing dates in yyyymmdd format.  The date 
> contains entries that are about a year old.  I want to use query, if 
> possible, to report on records where the dates are the current date 
> or the current date -1 (yesterday).
>
> Does anyone have any examples of how this can be done?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks
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