Addmonth

[Ed Hilovsky]

Yes, you are correct.

Thanks,

Ed Hilovsky
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On 11/04/2015 9:07 AM, Bruce Easton via Filepro-list wrote:
> On 11/3/15 5:13 PM, Ed Hilovsky via Filepro-list wrote:
>> *System with*
>>
>> Centos release 5.3 (Final)
>>
>> filePro Version 5.6
>>
>> *Simple file:*
>>          1 -   Date                                         8 mdy/
>>          2 -   Date                                         8 mdy/
>>          3 -   Date                                         8 mdy/
>>
>> *Simple Process:*
>>
>> 1=addmonth(1);2=addmonth(2);3=addmonth(3)
>>
>> *
>> **Strange Data from process:*
>>
>> Date: 11/01/15
>> Date: 10/01/15
>> Date: 10/30/15
>>
>>
>> Any ideas why 10/30/15 was returned from addmonth of 09/30/15 ?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>>
> That result appears to be correct as advertised.  I'm suspecting that 
> you want it to return the end of month date. Based on the F10 help, 
> addmonth only adds to the month and doesn't change the day UNLESS the 
> resulting date would be an invalid date (beyond the end of the month), 
> and in that case it would set the day to the eom. To ensure eom for 
> any date argument you send through the addmonth function, if that's 
> what you're after, you may be able to do something like (using the EOM 
> function):
>
> Then:   3=eom(addmonth(3))
>
> (I'm also assuming that fields 1 and 2 in your application apply to 
> beginning of month dates and if so, you're already ok with just 
> addmonth as long as your argument date is always the 1st; otherwise 
> you might need to employ the BOM function.)
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
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