Help with Dates and String

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Hello people!

I’m having problem on lotusscript. I created a function like that:

Function checkStatus(iniPrev As NotesDateTime, iniReal As NotesDateTime, fimPrev As NotesDateTime, fimReal As NotesDateTime, situation As Integer)

End Function

And I have 4 dates do pass like parameters. But this 4 parameters are dates (mm/dd/yyyy) in STRING FORMAT. So, I’m trying to cal the function like follows:

Call checkStatus(CDate(dateAux1), CDate(dateAux3), CDate(dateAux2), CDate(dateAux4), situationAux)

But lotusscript creates a error: “Illegal parenthesized reference: CDATE”

So, I tried this:

Call checkStatus(Date(dateAux1), Date(dateAux3), Date(dateAux2), Date(dateAux4), situationAux)

But lotusscript creates a error: “Wrong number of arguments for: DATE”

And, to finish, i tried:

Call checkStatus(New NotesDateTime(dateAux1), New NotesDateTime(dateAux3), New NotesDateTime(dateAux2), New NotesDateTime(dateAux4), situationAux)

And lotusscript creates another erro: “Unexpected: New; Expected: Expression; ,; ); BYVAL”

And, my last code was:

Dim dateAux1ndt, dateAux2ndt, dateAux3ndt, dateAux4ndt As NotesDateTime

Set dateAux1ndt = New NotesDateTime(dateAux1)

Set dateAux2ndt = New NotesDateTime(dateAux2)

Set dateAux3ndt = New NotesDateTime(dateAux3)

Set dateAux4ndt = New NotesDateTime(dateAux4)

Call checkStatus(dateAux1ndt, dateAux2ndt, dateAux3ntd, dateAux4ndt, situationAux)

And the error was: “Type mismatch on: dateAux1ndt”

Anyone could help me? How can I convert String to NotesDateTime?

Thanks,

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Subject: Help with Dates and String

First of all unlike other programming environments lotusscript will not let you define mutliple variables in the following manner:

Dim dateAux1ndt, dateAux2ndt, dateAux3ndt, dateAux4ndt As NotesDateTime

You have to define as follows:

Dim dateAux1ndt As NotesDateTime, dateAux2ndt As NotesDateTime, dateAux3ndt As NotesDateTime, dateAux4ndt As NotesDateTime

Kind of a pain, but thats lotusscript for ya.

Good luck…