ianr;349177 Wrote: 
> Just wondering if anyone has an action that will truncate the year field
> to a four digit value. Using MusicBrainz, I find I'm sometimes getting a
> full album release date (say 2002-04-01). I'd like to find a nice
> automated way to reduce the field to simply 2002. Is it possible to
> automate this?

If it's always formatted as yyyy-mm-dd (or yyyy-dd-mm) you can use a
'Format value' action, with field YEAR, set to $left(%year%, 4).  This
will leave normally formatted four digit dates alone.

But this won't work if the date ever comes across as mm-dd-yyyy or
dd-mm-yyyy or mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yy other formats.  Some of those could
be handled with a more involved 'Replace with regular expression' type
of action, or possibly a series of them.


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JJZolx

Jim
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