API/routine to calculate week days

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Chesca
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Is there an API/routine tha calculates weekdays only?
Woozy
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Hi bernfc10 - What exactly are you looking for?  Are you trying to determine whether a date is a weekday, or are you trying to count weekdays, or something else?
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I just checked the "Lawson 4GL Application Program Interfaces" document, and found several APIs that could help with this.   - 900-DAY-FROM-DATE - Calculates the day of the week for the input date (1=Sunday, 2=Monday, etc).   - 900-GET-WEEKDAY-LIT - Converts the date to a display format of the name of the day of the week. Detects the end user’s locale and

translates the weekday literal for that locale. (full weekday literal, not abbreviation)   - 905-GET-WEEKDAY-LIT - Returns the translated day of the week name for a date, based on locale. Kelly

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Chesca
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Hello and thank you for prompted response. I am trying to count the number of days. I am going to do as you suggested and increment a weekday_counter, thank you
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Bernfc10... Have you looked at the 900-NBR-DAYS-IN-DATE-RNG API? That will count the number of days between two given dates.