Format text date to 1st day of month...

[air1access]

I have a table with records that hold a "text date" that is formatted like:
Mar-2015
Apr-2015
Feb-2015
Dec-2014

I need this field reformatted with a new field to show the value like:
3/1/2015
4/1/2015
2/1/2015
12/1/2014

Any suggestions or examples..?

 

[MajP]

It is better to store a real date value, then you can use the format function to display it anyways you want. So if you would have stored 1/1/2015 you can display it anywhere as Jan-2015. More importantly you then can do date calculations in your database if needed.

So I would convert it to a real date

Public Function TextToDate(strDate) as date
TextToDate = cdate("1-" & strDate)
end function

You can use this function in a query as

Select yourDate, TextToDate([yourDate]) as RealDate,...

The cdate function is real powerful. It can convert most strings or number that remotely looks like a date into a date.

 

[MajP]

The cdate function is more powerful than I thought
You do not even have to first coerce the string into 1-Mon-2015 format. Simply
cdate("Dec-2015") produces the date 12/1/2015
so in a query
Select yourDate, cdate([yourDate]) as RealDate