Thanks Asa and belatedly Noorain. The format function worked and as it
happens the other method was returning the wrong day for all those who
might use it.
The .value2 does not seem to be necessary but I left it anyway.
On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 10:09:16 PM UTC-7, tangledweb wrote:
> Asa! Good to hear from you. I am fine. Hope the same for you. The
> example I posted seemed to work but I admit I did not check to see if
> the correct day was returned. Tomorrow I will do that and try out
> your format function version (which I think someone else posted
> earlier but I had not tried it yet).
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote:
> > Hi! Hope you are well.
> >
> >
> >
> > The "VBA way" is to use VBA's Format function (Replace CELL with the
> range
> > object for the cell desired):
> >
> > Format(CELL.Value2, "dddd")
> >
> >
> >
> > If you wanted to use the TEXT function, the example given -- I believe
> --
> > will return incorrect results. These versions would return the correct
> > result (replace WORKSHEET/CELL):
> >
> > Worksheetfunction.Text(CELL, "dddd")
> >
> > WORKSHEET.evaluate("text(" & CELL.address & ",""dddd"")")
> >
> > WORKSHEET.evaluate("text(" & CELL.value2 & ",""dddd"")")
> >
> > WORKSHEET.evaluate("text(""" & CELL.value & """,""dddd"")")
> >
> >
> >
> > The Format function would be my preference, but of the TEXT function
> > versions, the first is most efficient, then second, then third. The
> first
> > uses a cell reference to supply the date value, the second a dateserial
> > (Value2 returns a number for dates), the third a text representation of
> the
> > date (the Value property converts date/time values on the worksheet to
> VBA's
> > Date datatype, but when you concatenate it with a string, VBA's datatype
> > coercion behavior is to convert it to a text representation using the
> system
> > locale's short date and/or short time settings).
> >
> >
> >
> > The previous example acquired the cell value via it's Text property,
> which
> > is dangerous and rarely desired. Text returns the value of the cell as
> > formatted, but if the column is hidden, it returns an empty string.
> Also,
> > the Day function will cause trouble. It's a common misunderstanding to
> > think it should be used with the Text function, but this is almost never
> > desired. Day returns a number between 1 and 7 to indicate the day of
> the
> > week. Text formats dates or dateserial numbers, not day numbers. Text
> will
> > interpret numbers between 1 and 7 as the first 7 days on it's dateserial
> > calendar, which are 1/1/1900 through 1/7/1900.
> >
> >
> >
> > Asa
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: excel-macros@googlegroups.com [mailto:
> excel-macros@googlegroups.com]
> > On Behalf Of tangledweb
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 8:23 PM
> >
> >
> > To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com
> > Subject: $$Excel-Macros$$ Re: Can I get the day of the week (e.g.
> Friday)
> > from the date already encoded in a string?
> >
> >
> >
> > The custom format will not work as I need the data to have the date
> except
> > for one special test.
> >
> >
> >
> > This worked so thanks Lalit.
> >
> >
> >
> > Evaluate("=Text(Day(""" & Sheets(RawData).Cells(count, BarDate).Text &
> """),
> > ""dddd"")")
> >
> >
> >
> > Oddly when I used "Sheet1" instead of RawData which is the same sheet I
> got
> > a subscript out of range but worked fine with the alias.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 8:47:02 PM UTC-7, tangledweb wrote:
> >
> > If I already have Sheets(RawData).Cells(count, BarDate).Text having a
> value
> > like 6/26/2012 is there a way to get the day of the week as a number or
> > string for that date that does not require splitting it into its parts
> and
> > feeding them to some function? If the latter the .net examples I found
> for
> > that did not make sense to me so how is it done?
> >
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