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    Posted: 03 Sep 2007 at 12:51am
Hi all,
 
I am trying to convert a string field to a date field.
 
The string field at the minute in the format: JUL-06, AUG-06, DEC-06, JUN-07, AUG-07, ... ...
 
This monthly period is the basi sof my grouping, but when I sort the groups it obviously sorts them in alphabetical order because it is a string field.
 
I need to sort them in date order. I dont really want so do it manually using specified order because there will be new periods added constantly.
 
Will this cdate function work to convert this string?
 
CDate ({TABLE.PERIOD})
 
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Quote rnareshk Replybullet Posted: 03 Sep 2007 at 2:20am
have you check with the function Date(<string>).
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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 04 Sep 2007 at 4:10pm
Because your field is not a complete date, I doubt it will work.  You'll have to either reformat the string into a format like "JUL 1, 2006" or break it down into numbers and use the Date function, something like this: 
NumberVar Year;
NumberVar Month;


Year = 2000 + toNumber(right({table.Period}, 2));
Switch(
 left({table.Period}, 3) = 'JAN', Month = 1,
 left({table.Period}, 3) = 'FEB', Month = 2,
 left({table.Period}, 3) = 'MAR', Month = 3,
...);
CDate(Year, Month, 1)
 
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Quote foxy Replybullet Posted: 05 Sep 2007 at 3:05am
Thanks very much for that hilfy. I have put this into my formula now & will be testing it when i next pick up this project.
 
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