how to change macro date format?

sgnarkhede2016
sgnarkhede2016 New Altair Community Member
edited November 5 in Community Q&A
hello,

I have macro that contain current date i wnat to change date format to "MM/dd/yyyy"
how can i do that?
e.g
%{current_date}  
Aug 21, 2020 1:13:49 PM IST

and one other date i need to compare with this macro is InputDate 
Aug 21, 2020 1:13:49 PM IST
when i checked this condtion getting " F" results for all "if(INPUTDATETIME==%{current_date},"T","F")
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Answers

  • MartinLiebig
    MartinLiebig
    Altair Employee
    Hi,
    What you want to do is either parse the macro to a date or the date to a string in your if statement. Those are date_str and date_parse.

    I recommend to use Extract Macro (Format) as an operator. That allows you to set the format of the macro.

    Best,
    Martin