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Take the Birth.Date property of the as an example.
These properties do not necessarily hold a "date" since they can hold either a complete date (i.e. a month day and year) or a partial date (i.e. a month and a year or a month and a day).
Given this fact, how would I go about "parsing" the Birth.Date property of an individual to try to retrieve the separate values of the Month, day and year?
So far, my testing seems to indicate first that the property returns data in the DD/MM/YYYY format when it's a full date. Is this always the case or is the format based on the user's localization settings?
It further appears that there are for possibilities as to what might be in a "date" field of this type:
1) DD/MM/YYYY
2) DD/MM
3) DD/YYYY
4) YYYY
Is this accurate?
If this is true, then, can I assume that years and only years will always be 4 digits long?
If all this is true, then would it be safe to say that:
1) if there's only one "part" of a date present then it must be a year.
2) If there are two "parts" of the a date present and the second "part" is a two digit number then it will ways represent a month but if it is a four digit number then it will always be a year
If there's an easier way to figure all this out I'd love to hear it. If there isn't an easier way, then is there anything wrong in my logic?
Tom Malia
"a society that draws a broad line between it's military and it's intellectuals has it's wars fought by idiots and it's thinking done by cowards" (paraphrased from a source that I no longer remember)
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The GenoPro Date class has all the properties you should need.
'lego audio video erro ergo disco' or "I read, I listen, I watch, I make mistakes, therefore I learn"
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Perfect! Thanks!
Tom Malia
"a society that draws a broad line between it's military and it's intellectuals has it's wars fought by idiots and it's thinking done by cowards" (paraphrased from a source that I no longer remember)
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Grand Master
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There is also an Approximation property, that I don't think is documented in the SDK (Jean-Claude - please note) e.g. i.Birth.Date.Approximation to get any approximation character from the date ie. <, ~ or >.
'lego audio video erro ergo disco' or "I read, I listen, I watch, I make mistakes, therefore I learn"
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