Roy Brown wrote:

> Just for (pure mpe) grins, and all in eecummingscase for those with no shift
> key on their keyboards :-) :

who could that be? :-)

> parm dg

love the prefix :-)

> I guess we really need JULIAN and CALDATE as MPE functions, don't we?

'twould be lovely....

> then I progressed to getting dgyear in one go, which needs the ![<exp>]
> syntax, AFAICS...

i believe so (but jeff might have a different opinion....)

>     setvar dgyeard, 365250*(!hpyyyy - ![str('![finfo('!dg',-8)]',1,4)])
>
> but this doesn't work, so I did dgdaysold as above. Which is fine as far as
> it goes.
>
> But AAMOI, does anyone know the line that would get dgyeard from hpyyyy and
> dg, as I envisaged above?
>
> I can't find a way except by using nested !{<exp>], and nested !{<exp>]
> doesn't seem to work like I think it should :-(
>
> Is it me, or it is MPE at fault?   (    :-)     )

i think the problem is hpyyyy is an integer and what will be eventually returned
from the 'str' thing is a string....and you can't do math that way.          - d

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