$Sir DateFmt: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:59, 19 July 2013

Validate datetime format

Note: Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. There is currently no OO equivalent for the $Sir_DateFmt function.

The $Sir_DateFmt function expects a datetime format string and returns the value 1 if the datetime format is valid, else the value 0.

Syntax

%tst = $Sir_DateFmt(fmt)

Syntax terms

%tst	Set to 1 if `fmt` is a valid datetime format string, otherwise set to 0.
fmt	Datetime format string. Refer to "Datetime string formats" for an explanation of valid datetime format strings.

Usage notes

This $function has no error conditions.

Example

The following fragment prints the string Good:

%x = $Sir_DateFmt('CYYDDDHHMISSXXX') If %x = 1 Then Print 'Good' Else Print 'Bad' End If

Products authorizing $Sir_DateFmt

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 <span class="pageSubtitle">Validate datetime format</span>
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+<p class="warn"><b>Note: </b>Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. There is currently no OO equivalent for the $Sir_DateFmt function.</p>
 The <var>$Sir_DateFmt</var> function expects a datetime format string and returns the value 1 if the datetime format is valid, else the value 0.