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DateFormatUSA (textDate)

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Henry Iriawan, - HI TECH -
http://www.xozoshop.com

USA date's format using Month Name. It will make FM read date from text date format. If you find this useful, please comment. Thank you :)

Sample Input:

DateFormatUSA ("December 31, 2009")

Sample Output:

12/31/2009

/* Creator: Henry Iriawan Date: December 31, 2009 CF FOrmat: DateFormatUSA (TextDate) Whereas: TextDate contains a spesific format, e.g.: December 31, 2009 Aim: It would create a readable Date format */ Case ( GetAsDate (textDate) = "?" and not IsEmpty (textDate) ; Let ([ Raw = TextDate; tMonth = LeftWords ( Raw ; 1 ) ; cYear = GetValue ( Substitute ( Raw ; "," ; "¶" ) ; 2 ); cDay = Substitute ( Raw ; [",";""] ;[tMonth;""]; [cYear;""]); cMonth = Case ( Upper (tMOnth) = "JANUARY" or Upper (tMOnth) = "JAN" ; "1"; Upper (tMOnth) = "FEBRUARY" or Upper (tMOnth) = "FEB" ; "2"; Upper (tMOnth) = "MARCH" or Upper (tMOnth) = "MAR" ; "3"; Upper (tMOnth) = "APRIL" or Upper (tMOnth) = "APR" ; "4" ; Upper (tMOnth) = "MAY"; "5"; Upper (tMOnth) = "JUNE" or Upper (tMOnth) = "JUN" ; "6"; Upper (tMOnth) = "JULY" or Upper (tMOnth) = "JUL" ; "7"; Upper (tMOnth) = "AUGUST" or Upper (tMOnth) = "AUG" ; "8"; Upper (tMOnth) = "SEPTEMBER" or Upper (tMOnth) = "SEP" ; "9"; Upper (tMOnth) = "OCTOBER" or Upper (tMOnth) = "OCT" ; "10"; Upper (tMOnth) = "NOVEMBER" or Upper (tMOnth) = "NOV" ; "11"; Upper (tMOnth) = "DECEMBER" or Upper (tMOnth) = "DEC" ; "12"; ""); Result = Trim (cMonth) & "/" & Trim (cDay) & "/" & Trim (cYear) ]; Result) ; "")
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This would be helpful to convert text Date format to readable Date format for Filemaker.

Hope this function helps some people :)

Thank you.

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