displaying month as two digits 3

[eljacobs]

Hi

Does anyone kwow of a way to display the month as two digits in ASP vb?

i.e.

i need september to display as '09' not '9','SEP','September' etc.

Thanks

Elliot

 

[DotNetGnat]

Month(yourfield) should do it...

-DNG

 

[DotNetGnat]

try this:

mymonth="00"&month(now)
response.write Right(mymonth,2)

-DNG

 

[eljacobs]

Thats great thanks.

One question though. What will happen when the month reaches double fugures? i.e. will october display as 10 or 010?

 

[damber]

The right() function here takes the last 2 digits - and as you are adding the two 00 chars on the left you will always get what you want...

"00" = "00" ->> right("00",2) = "00" '//this is unlikely to happen.
"00" & "1" = "001" ->> right("001",2) = "01"
"00" & "11" = "0011" ->> right("0011",2) = "11"
"00" & "111" = "00111" ->> right("00111",2) = "11" '/// this will not happen with months

you're slicing and dicing at an absolute point in the string based on the count of digits from the right.

More information on right()

http://www.devguru.com/technologies/vbscript/13960.asp

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[FesterSXS]

No it will appear as 10. The [red]Right(mymonth,2)[/red] function will only take the two right-hand figures. The remaining figures are cropped and not used.

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[eljacobs]

great replies DotNetGnat, damber and FesterSXS. Clear, precise and well explained.

Thanks for your help.

Elliot

 

[damber]

No problem, good luck with your project

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[DotNetGnat]

glad to be of help...i hope you got the little trick we used here to get two digits...

-DNG