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Re: Day of Year... Too lazy for a two-line solution... [message #62104]

Fri, 22 August 2008 12:43

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Ed Hyer writes:

> I handle all date manipulation in my routines using JULDAY(), CALDAT,
> and the C() format code. Going from Day-of-Year to Julian Date is
> easy:
>
> Julian_Date = JULDAY(1,Day_Of_Year,Year,0,0,0)
>
> Getting Day-of-Year back out requires this, *unless you can do
> better*:
>
> CALDAT,Julian_Date,Null,Null,Year
> Day_Of_Year = Julian_Date - JULDAY(12,31,Year-1,0,0,0)
>
> I would really like a one-line solution with no stray variables.
> Anyone have one?

Would a call to a three-line function qualify as an answer?

Cheers,

David

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