Date Functions

f-bookda

The function returns Today’s date.

ReturnType: Date

AppliesTo: Data

Used as:

v-date = f-bookda().

f-bookyear

This function returns the current year in 4 digits.

ReturnType: Integer

AppliesTo: Data

Used as:

v-year = f-bookyear().

f-today

This function returns the current date.

ReturnType: Date

AppliesTo: Data

Used as:

v-today = f-today().

f-shortyear

The function returns the last 2 digits of the current year.

ReturnType: Date

AppliesTo: Data

Used as:

v-year = f-shortyear().

f-xe-xfilesfiles

This function returns all XFILES (Table) with a comma separated list.

ReturnType: Character

AppliesTo: Data

Used as:

v-files = f-xe-xfilesfiles().

f-xe-CreateDir

This function creates number of directories recursively, searches filename in the dir string, if exists then it ignores the directory with file name.

ReturnType: Integer

AppliesTo: Data

Used as:

v-create = f-xe-CreateDir(p-dir).\* in this example value of p-dir may be ‘c:\aaa\bba\cca\dd’*/

Input Parameter

f-xegetlinkdb

This function returns the name of the database, of the same level as the current Database.

ReturnType: Character

AppliesTo: Data

Used as:

v-dbname = f-xysfield(p-xdatc).\* in this example value of p-xdatc may be xfiles */

Input Parameter

f-xysfield

The function ,if input is a field in xsystem table, this returns the value stored in the field else returns the setting value from xsetting table with record whose input matches setting code.

ReturnType: Character

AppliesTo: Data

Used as:

v-value = f-xysfield(v-field).\* in this example value of v-field may be ‘xsystwebserver’ which returns “c:\inetpub\wwwroot\dir\images”*/

Input Parameters