Crystal Reports for Rational Application Developer Designer Guide

Year (x)

Description
Year extracts the year from a date and returns it as a Number.
Arguments
Returns
Whole Number
Action
Year extracts the year from a date and returns it as a Number.
Typical uses
Use this function any time you need to use a year, converted to a Number, in calculations or comparisons.
Examples
Year({file.LAST INVOICE ON})
Returns 1989, where the last invoice date was in 1989.
If Year({file.LAST UPGRADE}) < 1988 Then
     "P.S. You are missing out on many of the benefits of our new, improved version."
Else
     ""
Prints a P.S. for those customers who last upgraded prior to 1988, and prints nothing for those customers who show a more recent upgrade.
Year(CDateTime(1996, 3, 3, 10, 33, 20))
Returns 1996.


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