FORMATDATETIME

Comments

• basswar

  April 2004 edited 7:24PM

  The formatting expression is STRING. So You have to enclose it in apostrophes.
  [FORMATDATETIME('MMMM', DATE)]. But if You need date formatting You can use the following method:
  [DATE #Dyyyy.mm.dd.] where the # tells the engine to interpret the followings as the formatting expression, D means that the formatting is a date-format. The letters of the expression and the '.' mean the same as Delphi's FormatDateTime function's parameters.
  
  Regards:Alex
• Randel

  April 2004 edited 7:24PM

  I knew it was a string, but I just could not get it to work. Now I know it was because I was trying to put it between double-quotation marks ("..."). That caused me to get the same, but different, error message. The message had the format parameter was then surrounded by two sets of double-quotes: (""..."").
  
  I thought I had tried single-quotes, but I must not have. Thanks for your help.
  
  Randel
• basswar

  April 2004 edited 7:24PM

  I use ver 2.42 and both of the above examples work fine without any errors and gives the correct and same result. I mean I used [FORMATDATETIME('MMMM', DATE)] and [DATE #Dmmmm] and they are the same in the result.
  
  Alex