Create a string with previous day's date 2

[TMurdach]

All,

I am looking for a way to always insert the previous day's date into a string in the format 03172005.

My automated nightly reports have to run after midnight, and since the current date is populated into the date field automatically, I need a way to populate the previous day's date.

Thank you.

 

[knob]

Here's a modfied copy of a sample from my site that should do the job. The trick is subtracting 86400 (the number of seconds in a day) from the current time value in $LTIME, then using %02d in the format string of the strfmt command to force two digits for the day and month:

proc main
integer iDay, iMonth, iYear, iHour, iMin, iSec
string sDate

ltimeints $LTIME-86400 iYear iMonth iDay iHour iMin iSec

strfmt sDate "%02d%02d%d" iMonth iDay iYear
endproc

http://www.aspectscripting.com

 

[TMurdach]

knob,

It worked, like all your other suggestions do!

Thanks again...