DATE PROBLEM

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have date format like date-low & date-high in mm/dd/yy.

Now I have to take the difference of both the date.

If the difference is greater that 10 days then i wanted to display an error message.

Now I m putting date like 01/01/2006(date-low) & 01/30/2006(date-high). I stored the difference in local variable but it is negative.

but lv_date is -ve while debugging. How i can convert that one to positive value so that i got my output.

after it i check the coding & wrote the code like

if lv_date gt 10.

message.

endif.

PLZ REPLY ME ASAP.

[Former Member]

l_diff = date1 - date2.

l_diff = abs( l_diff ). "to make it positive

if l_diff > 10.

• Do something

endif.

[Former Member]

hi Salil,

Vlaidate the value ..

i.e,

if date ge '-10'.
  date = date - date. 
endif.

else ..

date = abs(date).

Regards,

Santosh

[Former Member]

Do you have the FM 'SD_DATETIME_DIFFERENCE' available. You can use this to return the difference in days. You will have to set the time to be a constant value though.

[Former Member]

Hello Salil,

U can use SD_DATE_DIFFERENCE Fm and pass date-high to DATE1 and date-low to DATE2.

[Former Member]

Salil,

subtract from-date from to-date which will give u always +ve value.

-Anu

[Former Member]

data: l_diff type i.

l_diff = date1 - date2.

l_diff = abs( l_diff ).

if l_diff > 10.

**give error message.

endif.

Ramesh.

[Former Member]

hi ,

but y will u get the value to negative when

u substract a low date from high date ..

even in selection screen if u refer to the date field it will not accept .

data :   DATE1 LIKE  P0001-BEGDA,
               DATE2 LIKE  P0001-BEGDA.
   data diff type i.
        date1 = '20060130'.
        date2 = '20060101'.

     diff = date1 - date2.

     write:/ diff.

no way im getting a negative value..

i hope u have to substract low date from high date ..

u might be substracting high date from low date ..

data : DATE1 LIKE P0001-BEGDA,

DATE2 LIKE P0001-BEGDA.

data diff type i.

date1 = '20060130'.

date2 = '20060101'.

diff = date2 - date1.

write:/ diff." now here diff is negative ..

pass ur selection screen field data and the lv_date calculation ..in case u r not able to solve ..

regards,

Vij

Message was edited by:

vijay k

Message was edited by:

vijay k

[Former Member]

Hi salil singh,

I am Ravi. when coming to ur problem of converting a -ve num to a +ve num i give the following code.

lv_date = ABS( lv_date ).

if lv_date gt 10.

write : / message.

endif.

I think this hould solve ur problem.

If u find it useful dont forget to awar me some points.

bye,

Ravi Kumar G.