Date functions

[adventuresofgreg]

Howdy. I'm just look for a slick way of using dateitems (or something?) to do something like this:

Put x business days prior to the 3rd Wednesday of thismonth

Thanks, I'm having a hard time with this.

[dunbarx]

Greg.

So much fun. But you can do this. If you want to use dateItems, and there is nothing wrong with that, think about this handler:

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on mouseUp
   put "3/31/2015" into tDate
   convert tDate to dateItems
   repeat until item 7 of tDate = 4
      subtract 1 from item 3 of tDate
      convert tDate to dateItems
   end repeat
   answer "Well, the last Wednesday is" && tDate
end mouseUp

Put a breakpoint in the "subtract" line of the repeat loop, and step through. Now what is the next step?

Craig Newman