Date:         Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:25:20 -0700
Reply-To:     David Marso <david.marso@gmail.com>
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From:         David Marso <david.marso@gmail.com>
Subject:      Re: Calculate age by using birthdate and a specific date?
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For starters, how about posting your non working syntax and any error
messages etc.
BTW YYYYMMDD is *NOT* a date format.  You'll need to parse it into a proper
date.


lynn wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I'm new to learning syntax and am having trouble
> calculating age in years (AGE) by using birthdate (BDATE) and a specific
> date
> (SDATE) which is May 15, 2010. The birthdate format is: YYYYMMDD. The
> resulting age would preferably be a precise number although an
> approximation is
> ok too.
> I checked the archives and tried to adapt some
> of the examples which use "Compute" with the Date Extraction function
> but haven’t been able to make a workable syntax.  Could someone pls. help?
> Many thanks.
> lynn
>


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