Thanks Sam,
I left out one little fact. This is for VBA. I tried the code in my
module, but it got confused. In some cases ws code and vba are similar,
but for DATE function, they are very different! I am sure there is a
functional equivalent. I am also posting the VBA I've written thus far.
The goal is to change what the barcode scanner reads into Excel to a easier
visual format.
What the barcode scanner reads into Excel: &>0131502359 What we want to
see after running the VBA: 5/30/2013
I test for then remove the first three characters if equal to "&>0"
Then remove the last 4 digits (this is a time and we don't it)
This leaves 13150 in the string
I want to convert 150 to MM/DD
Then take the 13 and concatenate to "20" to make 2013 and rearrange the
pieces back together as mm/dd/2013
I think I can figure the rest out, but the mm/dd from days of the year has
me challenged.
For Each Dtx In Range("D2:" & Cells(Range("D:D").Rows.Count,
3).End(xlUp).Address)
If Left(Dtx, 3) = "<&0" Then
Dtx.Value = Replace(Left(Dtx, Len(Dtx) - 4), "<&0", "")
NDate = Mid(D2, 3, 3)
'MDDate = take number of days and convert to mm/dd
'Code to rearrange the pieces back together
Else
Dtx.Value = ""
End If
Next
End Sub
Thanks,
Don
On Wednesday, August 7, 2013 7:20:15 PM UTC-6, Sam Mathai Chacko wrote:
>
> Don, try passing the number of days to the date function like this.
>
> =TEXT(DATE(2013,1,No. Of Days - 1), "m\/d")
>
> Sam MATHAI CHACKO
> On Aug 8, 2013 4:11 AM, "Don Barton" <donal...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>> I work at a hospital laboratory and we have an expiration date barcode on
>> blood transfusion units that formats the month and day as a number; the
>> number of days since the beginning of the year. We use a barcode scanner
>> to read in the expiration date, but need to convert the number of days to
>> month and day. For example for this year (2013), 015 Would be 1/15, 275
>> would be 10/2. The expiration date includes year and time as well, but I
>> can pull out the numbers of days using the MID function.
>> I've looked through several websites as well as this Group, but haven't
>> found any solutions yet.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Don
>>
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