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Quarter Function (Date, Long)

X#
Returns the quarter of the year in which a date or datetime expression occurs.

Namespace:  XSharp.VFP
Assembly:  XSharp.VFP (in XSharp.VFP.dll) Version: 2.21
Syntax
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 FUNCTION Quarter(
	dExpression AS DATE,
	 nMonth AS LONG
) AS LONG
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Parameters

dExpression
Type: Date
Specifies the Date expression for which you want Quarter( ) to return a value.
nMonth
Type: Long
Specifies an optional starting month to the examined quarter. You can use this to specify quarters based on a fiscal rather than a calendar year.

Return Value

Type: Long
Numeric data type. Quarter( ) returns the quarter of the year in which a date occurs, and the values can be 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4. Quarter( ) returns 0 if passed an empty Date or DateTime value, for example,
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1Quarter(NULL_DATE)
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