Function for Displaying Month

[chlad]

hi everyone!

i want to have a function that will display the month as a string.

for example my input is "3/20/2006"

the output should be: "Month is Mar"

meaning 3 = Mar

if 11 = Nov, 12 = Dec .. and so on...


can anybody help me to do this?

thanks.

[elopus]

Hi!

I think in ASP VBScript there is a MonthName function which you can use. First you need to cast the date string into a Date data type, then use the Month function to return the month number from that string, then use MonthName to return the name for that month. I think if you supply True as the second parameter, it will abbreviate the month name for you. So for example:

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Function GetMonthName(value)
    Dim dteValue
    Dim intMonth
    Dim strMonth
 
    dteValue = CDate(value)
    intMonth = Month(dteValue)
    strMtonh = MonthName(intMonth, True)
 
    GetMonthName = strMonth
End Function

You can encur all sorts of problems with dates though, because ASP can't handle different variable types, and so effectively treats every variable like a String. You might find that it gets confused between 10/03/2006 (October 3rd in US format) and 03/10/2006 (March 10th in US format), but it all depends on how you're storing your dates in the first place.

Hope that helps. Give me a shout if you need any more.