if statement to get year from 2 digits...

[jaffamuffin]

Hi All

Hope you can help

I have this :

		S T U 31/12 =RIGHT(S2,2) =IF(RIGHT(S2,2)<13,"20"&RIGHT(S2,2),"19"&RIGHT(S2,2)) 31/12 =RIGHT(S3,2) =IF(T2<13,"20"&T2,"19"&T2)

But it seems to evaluate to false giving me 1912 instead of 2012. If I just type 12 into the formula rather than extracting it it give me the right result of 2012.

What am I missing ?

Cheers all

[NoS]

=RIGHT(S2,2)*1 to get a number instead of a string

[bgoree09]

Good afternoon,

This is probably not the most effective way to get what you're looking for but I think it will work in a pinch. It is returning a number of days and not a year.

=TEXT((("20"&RIGHT(S2,2)+0)-1900)*365.3,"YYYY")

[bgoree09]

You're welcome.

[Hercules1946]

If your working in days, perhaps :
=TEXT((("20"&RIGHT(S2,2)+0)-1900)*365.24219879+2,"DD/MMM/YYYY") for accuracy !

[jaffamuffin]

Thanks all What I did in the end was this :

=IF(S2="","",(IF(RIGHT(S2,2)<"13","20"&RIGHT(S2,2),"19"&RIGHT(S2,2))))

I think using the speech marks made it do a lexigraphical compare rather than a numeric, but either way it compares properly and gave me the right result.