new string what?

strNoWOCalDate = string(2-len(month(cdate(strCalDate))), "0") & month(cdate(strCalDate)) & string(2-len(day(cdate(strCalDate))), "0") & day(cdate(strCalDate)) & right(year(cdate(strCalDate)),2)


Does anyone know what the heck the above is doing?
I'm in the process of updating it to C# but that is classic ASP/VBScript code. I just dont quite get what its doing there.

It looks to me like it's taking a String representation of a date and reformatting it into MMddyy format. If you were to take a date string like "7/4/2013" (en-AU) and feed it to that code then I think that you'd get "040713" back. There's an easy way to test that, because that code should work the same way in VB.NET just as it would in VB6 or VBScript.

thanks.
yes indeed. I thought the code would work with VB.NET as well and compare it using that. just wanted to make sure I understood what was going on rather than comparing like for like.

unfortunately doing it in VB.NET does not quite work - compiler error:

Code:

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Dim strCalDate As DateTime = Me.DateTimePicker1.Value
        Dim strNoWOCalDate As String = string(2-len(month(cdate(strCalDate))), "0") & month(cdate(strCalDate)) & string(2-len(day(cdate(strCalDate))), "0") & day(cdate(strCalDate)) &  right(year(cdate(strCalDate)),2)

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error: '.' expected.

this is just before the opening bracket: = string(2-...

Does this give you the desired results?

Code:

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Dim strCalDate As DateTime = Me.DateTimePicker1.Value
MessageBox.Show(strCalDate.ToString("MMddyy"))

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indeed. I figured it out earlier and forgot to post!
so really, it is just MMddyy... wow... what a way to do it :)