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Converting Dates

Commcare
in Calculation Engine (Define Fields)

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I am importing (Via OBDC) information into Filemaker from a legacy pharmacy system. The pharmacy software stores a date as YEAR__DAY_OF_YEAR i.e. 2002001 for January 1, 2002. I am having extreme difficulty converting 2002001 to 01/01/2002 with a calculation.

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Assuming the field you are converting from is type text and always consists of 7 digits,

Date(1, 1, Left(DateField, 4)) + TextToNum(Right(DateField, 3)) - 1

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Thanks! Worked great...Actually it was pretty simple...It's amazing how sometimes your brain just refuses to cooperate with your eyes....

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