PA_GetDateField

version 2003

PA_GetDateField (tNum; fNum; day; month; year)

Parameter	Type		Description
tNum	short	→	Table number of the field to access
fNum	short	→	Field number of the field to access
day	short*	←	Pointer to the day of the date
month	short*	←	Pointer to the month of the date
year	short*	←	Pointer to the year of the date

Description

The routine PA_GetDateField fills the shorts pointed to by day , month , year with the values of the date field number fNum of the current record of table number tNum .

If aVariable is not a eVK_Date variable, the routine does nothing and leaves *day , *month and *year unchanged.

day


   month

and

day

can be null pointer if you do not want to read those values.
Example

Check the year of a particular date.

   short      year = 0;
 
   PA_GetDateField( table, field, 0, 0, &year );
   if ( year == 1961 )
   {
      /* . . . */
   }

See Also

PA_SetDateField .

Error Handling

Use PA_GetLastError to see if an error occurred ( eER_InvalidFileNumber , eER_InvalidFieldNumber ).