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Quote tlmoses Replybullet Topic: Comparing dates in formula
    Posted: 17 Jul 2007 at 10:33am
I would like to be able to compare dates to know which was later. 
I have Date1 and Date2, where sometimes Date 2 is not set.
 
If I do this:
 
if Date2>Date1 then
   Date2                            
else
   Date1
 
I always get Date 2, even when there isn' t a date set in the field.  I would like to get Date2 if it is later and if it is not set, use Date1.  These values are declared as dates in the table that I pull them from .
 
How do I compare them?
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Quote jkwrpc Replybullet Posted: 17 Jul 2007 at 2:13pm

You might try this.

Test Date2 to make sure it is a vaild date by using the ISDate function. Your formula would look something like this.

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datevar x; 
 
IF IsDate({Date2}) AND Date2>Date1 THEN
  x:= Date2                            
else
   x := Date1;
x;
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Hope this helps
 
 
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Quote tlmoses Replybullet Posted: 18 Jul 2007 at 5:14am
Thanks for the suggestion, but I have tried "isdate" and I get a Crystal error that it is expecting a string.
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Quote jkwrpc Replybullet Posted: 18 Jul 2007 at 7:51am
I tried this much of the formula with the changes and this much works.
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stringvar x;
 
IF IsDate(Cstr({Orders.Ship Date}))  THEN
  x:= (Cstr({Orders.Ship Date}))                   
else
   x := "Nodate";
x;
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You will need to deal with the 'AND Date2>Date1' issue, I did not have two dates in my sample database to quickly compare.  You could also use the totext function of CR instead of the CStr
 
Hope this helps
 
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Quote tlmoses Replybullet Posted: 18 Jul 2007 at 9:57am
Thanks - I solved my problem with the last suggestion!
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