I am trying to use the following for a user to provide a beginning date
(bdate) and ending date (sdate) and a variable to be set for the same month
and day, but for the prior year. I have exhausted every possibility I can
come up with. Any help would be very much appreciated.

My settings are:
Date format: mm/dd/yyyy
Date sequence: mm/dd/yy

Using R:BASE X for Windows


SET VAR bdate DATE
SET VAR sdate DATE
SET VAR bdate2 DATE
SET VAR sdate2 DATE
FILLIN bdate USING 'ENTER THE BEGINNING DATE :'
FILLIN sdate USING 'ENTER THE ENDING DATE :'
SET VAR bdate2 = (RDATE((IMON(bdate)),(IDAY(bdate)),(IYR(bdate))-1))
SET VAR sdate2 = (RDATE((IMON(sdate)),(IDAY(sdate)),(IYR(sdate))-1))


Kaleb Wade
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