MSM-Workstation
Data Types

Go back to the alphabetic list of data types
Go back to the first page of this tutorial

Names of months

Internal name is "Zmonths".

This data type is used for entities that describe the names of the months in the year.

Data of this type looks like a string consisting of 12 substrings, separated by the character "#", where each substring represents the name of one month in the year.

Abbreviations for the names of the months are created by taking the first three letters of the names of the months.

Examples

Set abr="jan#feb#mrt#apr#mei#jun#jul#aug#sep#okt#nov#dec"
%%Set(%%CurrCtl.MonthFormat,abr)

would load the defintions of the Dutch appreviations of the names of the months.

Set full="januari#februari#maart#april#mei#juni#juli#augustus"
Set full=full_"#september#oktober#november#december"
%%Set(%%CurrCtl.MonthFormat,full)

would load the defintions of the full Dutch names of the months.