Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Format Strings

Format function with Navision is really powerful all we need to do is to understand in detail how the format string is built

Below is one example what i wanted to do was to generate a file name in the format DDMMYY-HHMMSS.txt also i wanted DD (Date) to be two characters and MM (Month) to be padded with 1 zero if it was 1 character in length. Amazingly the entire thing could be achieved just by one amazing function FORMAT

FORMAT(CURRENTDATETIME,0,'<FillerCharacter,0><Day,2><Month,2><Year><Hours24,2><Minutes,2><Seconds,2>')

All the different parameters that can be used with FORMAT function are well documented in the online help.

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