Calculating age and years of service

[Jose Lerebours]

fp at mccabes.us wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to calculate a person's age from their date of birth, also  
> I am trying to get years of service down to the day.  I have the dates  
> in the filePro file, and I want to base it off of today's date.
> 
> If I use something such as "ag=@td-1", I get a number such as 20763.  
> If I divide by 365, I can get 56.8849135 years, I can use that for the  
> age.  But for years of service I was looking for more data, such as "X  
> years, Y months, Z days."
> 
> Any suggestions would be helpful.
> 
> Thanks,

Dan,

Check this out:

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@keym  þ If: 

        Then: dim info(3)(6,.0) 

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        þ If: 

        Then: ya(8,mdy/)="01/17/72"; yb(8,mdy/)=@td; gosub LOOPAGE 

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        þ If: 

        Then: info("1")=int(info("2")/"12") ; info("3")=yc-yb 

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        þ If: 

        Then: info("2")=(frac(info("2")/"12"))*"12" 

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        þ If: 

        Then: yx="Y: "&info("1")&"\nM: "&info("2")&"\nD: " 

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        þ If: 

        Then: yx=yx&info("3"); show ""; msgbox yx 

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        þ If: 

        Then: end 

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LOOPAGEþ If: 

        Then: yd(4,.0)=eom(dom(ya)); yd=eom(ya)+yd; yc(8,mdy/)=ya+yd 

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        þ If: ya eq yc 

        Then: yc=eom(yc+"1") 

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        þ If: yc gt yb 

        Then: return 

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        þ If: 

        Then: info("2")=info("2")+"1"; ya=yc; goto LOOPAGE 



Please note that I have not tested this beyond what is shown and you 
should test/modify code prior to put it into production.  This is just 
an attempt to help you get started.

Regards,


Jose Lerebours
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