day Method

Class: Date

Description

This method returns the formatted day (two digits) of a specified Date object. Because the value may include a leading zero, the type of the return is String. If you need the day as a Number, use the dayOfMonth method.

Syntax

dateObject.day()

Parameters

None

Returns

A String containing the two-digit day value of a date.

When Became Available

Profile v6.4

Example

type RecordCIF cif = Db.getRecord("CIF","ACN=:ACN")

type Date date = cif.dob // declare Date object

type String DAY = date.day() // always 2 digits!

 

// DAY is String, following numeric compare will ALWAYS fail

if DAY=7 write "You have won the lottery !!"

 

* Variable ACN must be defined prior to the getRecord statement.