How to find the name of the month of given date in QTP?

You can find the name of the month like January, February etc from a given date using below code.

There are 2 functions which help you find the name of month.

1. month(anyvalid_date)  -  returns the numeric representation of month .
2. monthname(intX)         - returns human readable month name like January, February etc

print monthname(month(now))

Above statement will print the current month name of the system.

print monthname(month("09-jan-1986"))
'Will print january

To get the month name in abbreviated form use below statement
print monthname(month("09-jan-1986"), true)
'Will print Jan.
Thus when you pass the second parameter as true, you will get the month name in 3 letter format like Jan, Feb etc.

Above statement will print the name of the month for the date 09-jan-1986.

Numeric representation of month is given below


1 - January(default)
2  - February
....and so on......
This is how you can find the name of the month for given date in QTP and vbscript.


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