REXX Get last two digits of the year 1

Jongskie M. · Feb 9, 2024

Hi,
I would like to display the last two digits of the year from the code below, please amend, thx

Code:

ystrday = date('s',(date('b')-1,'b')
CALL ZocSend "RE"||ystrday"||" ^M"

RE20240208
Am expecting a result of RE240208

mikrom · Feb 9, 2024

use

Code:

substr(ystrday,3)

Jongskie M. · Feb 9, 2024

Code:
mikrom (Programmer)
use

Code:

CODE substr(ystrday,3)

Hi mikrom, thank you so much.

Jongskie M. · Feb 9, 2024

mikrom (Programmer)
use

Code:

substr(ystrday,3)

hi mikrom, how about this format 08022024 <--DDMMYYYY

mikrom · Feb 9, 2024

you can use the substr() function

Code:

yyyymmdd = date('s')
say(yyyymmdd)

ddmmyyyy = substr(yyyymmdd,7,2)||substr(yyyymmdd,5,2)||substr(yyyymmdd,1,4)
say(ddmmyyyy)

Output

Code:

20240209
09022024

Here is a good tutorial for learning basics of REXX. There have online interpreter, where you can try out your code snippets