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From: obrien@rocky5.rockefeller.edu.rockefeller.edu (Tom O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: searching by dates in HC
Summary: Use "convert <container> to seconds"
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Date: 25 Oct 88 22:25:22 GMT
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In article <10580@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John Boswell) writes:
[if statement that compares date strings like "10/24/88" with < and >]
>
>	Now, I *really* didn't expect this to work, as what is in the
>startDate, endDate and orderDate containers is a string, and not a 
>number.  However, I can't figure out how to convert more than a 
>character to a number.  Can anyone help me implement something like
>the "if" routine above?  (It's getting close to the end of the month
>*smile*).
>

What you need is "convert", as in "convert myDate to seconds".  If you do this
to all of the dates in question, you can compare them easily with < and >,
since they'll just be big integers (seconds since 1/1/1904, probably).

Tom O'Brien                      Rockefeller University Computing Services
obrien@rocky5.rockefeller.edu                                          NYC