How to find the name of the week day for given date in QTP?

You can find the name of the weekday like sunday, monday etc from a given date using below code.

There are 2 functions which help you find the name of week day or weekday name.

1. Weekday(anyvalid_date)  -  returns the numeric representation of weekday.
2. Weekdayname(intX)         - returns human readable weekday name like monday, sunday etc

print weekdayname(weekday(now))

Above statement will print the today's day name.

print weekdayname(weekday("09-jan-1986"))
'Will print thursday

To get the day name in abbreviated form use below statement
print weekdayname(weekday("09-jan-1986"), true)
'Will print thu.
Thus when you pass the second parameter as true, you will get the name in 3 letter format like sun, mon etc.

Above statement will print the name of day on 09-jan-1986.

Numeric representation of weekday is given below


1 - Sunday (default)
2  - Monday
3  - Tuesday
4  - Wednesday
5  - Thursday
6  - Friday
7  - Saturday

You can also use above statement to find out the day on which you were born.

Example to find the date of birth weekday -

Assume that your birthday is 24-oct-1985

dob = #24-oct-1985#
print weekdayname(weekday(dob))

This is how you can find the name of the weekday in QTP and vbscript.


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