Formatting a date in a Code Snippet
Hello. I have a test script where I need to input the week beginning date in a date field. The format of the date field is mmddyyyy.
I am using this code snippet:
(Date-WEEKDAY(Date())+1)
The issue I am running into is today is May 3, 2022 and week beginning date, May 1, 2022 is entered as 512022 (mdyyyy), not 05012022 (mmddyyyy).
What is the syntax to format this as mmddyyyy using VBA?
I am not concerned about date separators. Just having the date display as 05012022.
Thanks in advance!
Hey DCat1223!
We have a 'DateTimeToFormatString' method we can call on date objects that allows you to specify specific formatting.
In the example below I am using the 'aqDateTime.Today()' method to get the current date, then using the 'aqConvert.DateTimeToFormatStr' to format the dates how you have requested above.
Sub DateTimeToFormatStrSample Dim date date = aqDateTime.Today() Log.Message("Unformatted raw date from aqDateTime " & aqDateTime.Today) Log.Message("Formatted Date = " & aqConvert.DateTimeToFormatStr(date, "%m%d%Y")) End SubHere you can see the unformatted and formatted output that handles the 'MMDDYYYY' requirement.
Here are links to the documentation used for this solution;
'aqDateTime.Today Method'
https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/program-objects/aqdatetime/today.html
'aqConvert.DateTimeToFormatStr Method'
I hope this helps!
