I'm trying to set a variable to a date in the format I want (looking to
return the date of 7 days ago), but I'm running into some trouble.  And what
baffles me even more, is that the variables I'm working with are not setting
the way I expect them to.  Can anyone tell me why the below is happening?

%SETVAR PURGEDATE TODAY-7
%
%SHOWVAR PURGEDATE
PURGEDATE = 01/10/16
As expected

%
%
%SETVAR PURGEMONTH STR("!PURGEDATE",4,2)
%SHOWVAR PURGEMONTH
PURGEMONTH = 10
As expected

%
%SETVAR PURGEDAY STR("!PURGEDATE",7,2)
%SHOWVAR PURGEDAY
PURGEDAY = 16
As expected

%
%SETVAR PURGEYEAR STR("!PURGEDATE",1,2)
%SHOWVAR PURGEYEAR
PURGEYEAR = 01
As expected

%
%
%ECHO !PURGEMONTH/!PURGEDAY/!PURGEYEAR
10/16/01
As expected

%SETVAR PURGEDATE !PURGEMONTH/!PURGEDAY/!PURGEYEAR
%SHOWVAR PURGEDATE
PURGEDATE = 01/10/16
Okay, what in the world happened here?

%setvar purgedate !purgemonth
%showvar purgedate
PURGEDATE = 10
Let's try to set it to something else. Hmm...it takes the value just fine.

%
%setvar purgedate !purgemonth/!purgeday/!purgeyear
%showvar purgedate
PURGEDATE = 01/10/16
Weird.  Now I'm totally confused.


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