How to get the current year in QTP?

There are many scenarios where you will need to find the current year in QTP.

Example -

Consider a scenario where you have to verify that the year displayed on the web page is correct or not.
Please note that You have to just verify the year in yyyy in this format and not the entire date.

QTP (Vb script) provides below function to find the current year.

print year(now)  

Above statement will print the current year.

The only parameter year function takes is the valid date. So if you want to find the year part of any given date in QTP you can pass the date as a first parameter.

Example -

print year("3-jun-2011") 

Above statement will print 2011.

Real Life usage of Year function in QTP. (Practical Project application of Year function)

We can use year function to find the current date which can be used to create unique random numbers. Random numbers or strings can be used in many situations like creating automation reports with unique file names.

This is how you can get the year of any given date in vbscript and QTP.

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