I have a numeric field (theDay) that is displayed as Check Boxes with a Value List containing the numbers 1 to 31 that represents the days of a month. I would like to find out if the day from a date field (theDate) has been checked in theDay field. I cannot use PatternCount(theDay,day(theDate)) because if the day is 1 then a match will be made on any day with a 1 in it such as 1, 10...19, 21, 31.

e.g.

[ ] 1 [x] 2 [ ] 3 ...... would match with 2/3/2004

[ ] 11 .....

[x] 21 ..... would not match with 2/3/2004

This will tell you what the day# of the date is:

MiddleWords( DateToText(Date_), 2, 1)

Appears to work no matter how the date is "formatted" to look on the layout.

Fenton, Thanks for the reply.

I can get the Day# by using the day() function as shown above in my first post. My problem is related to how data is stored in a field that is filled using the checkbox/valuelist method.

The following examples show what I mean:

"SatMonTue"

This string was imported from a checkbox/valuelist field that has days of week.

"102322"

This string is the one I am interested. It comes from another checkbox/valuelist field with the values 10,23,22 selected.

Using the day() function I can extract the day from the date. So for 2/3/2004 I get the value 2 for the day.

I now want to see if 2 (which is the day from the above date) appears in the string "102322" without detecting the 2 in 23 and 22.

So in this example there should be no match.

Hope this explains my problem a little better.

premier

You may format it as text rather than num.

Then the values would be separated by a Carriage Return, and it should be easy then to compare the value of gMatch (a global) with your DaysNumber field.

Patterncount("

Thanks Ugo

Yes, that did the trick.