From: Jaime Méndez (servafin_at_prodigy.net.mx)
Date: Tue Oct 12 2004 - 18:06:03 PDT
Once you have your date string converted to a number, you can sort it.
Jaime.
Extract from Programmer Ref:
StringToDate(dateString)
Parses a string for date or time information and returns the result as the
number of minutes passed since midnight,January 1,1904.The formats used
for individual elements and delimiters in the input string are determined by
values in the active locale bundle.
dateString The string to parse.If the year is omitted from the
string,the current year is assumed.The following types
of date/time strings can be parsed (the case of letters is
not signi ficant):
"12:05 a.m. sun, jan 2, 1992"
"jan 2, 1992"
"12:05 1/2/92"
"1/2/92"
"12:05 mon,1/2"
"1/2"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Detlefsen" <mdetlefsen_at_mac.com>
To: <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLK] export FilePad to QFig Pro
> How do get an entry in FilePad to be a date? The only things you can
> choose from the Data Type menu are Text, Numbers Only, and Telephone.
> None of which allow you to sort by date. I tried FilePad, but gave up
> on it because I couldn't make it sort by date.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 12, 2004, at 07:03 PM, Jaime Méndez wrote:
>
> > FilePad is much better than NewtDB. It is a real relational DB,
> > entries can
> > be modified, entries can be text, numbers, dates, etc.
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