Removing Zero from the Date in VuGen LoadRunner
Challenge:
Enter start date and end date and date should not include zero before actual value of month and day.
E.g.
Invalid date format: 04/27/2011
Valid date format: 4/27/2011
Solution:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 | //variable declaration char month[10], day[10], year[10], startDate[10], endDate[10]; int nonZeroDay, nonZeroMonth; /*if you want to run script for multiple interactions then you have to nullify the concatenated string before starting new iteration otherwise it will keep the old value*/ strcpy(startDate, ""); strcpy(endDate, ""); //original date which contain zero in the date lr_save_datetime("Today’s Date is: %m/%d/%Y", DATE_NOW, "normalDate"); lr_output_message(lr_eval_string("{normalDate}")); //for generating non zero start date //to assign the current date parts to a parameter lr_save_datetime("%m", DATE_NOW, "month"); lr_save_datetime("%d", DATE_NOW, "day"); lr_save_datetime("%Y", DATE_NOW, "year"); //to remove zero from the string. e.g.getting '4' from '04' nonZeroMonth = atoi(lr_eval_string("{month}")); lr_save_int(nonZeroMonth, "month"); nonZeroDay = atoi(lr_eval_string("{day}")); lr_save_int(nonZeroDay, "day"); //creating a date string using concatenation of nonzero date parts and separator '/' strcat(startDate, lr_eval_string("{month}")); strcat(startDate, "/"); strcat(startDate, lr_eval_string("{day}")); strcat(startDate, "/"); strcat(startDate, lr_eval_string("{year}")); lr_save_string(startDate, "p_StartDate"); lr_output_message("Start Date is: %s", lr_eval_string("{p_StartDate}")); //for generating non zero end date by incrementing date by one day offset lr_save_datetime("%m", DATE_NOW + ONE_DAY, "month"); lr_save_datetime("%d", DATE_NOW + ONE_DAY, "day"); lr_save_datetime("%Y", DATE_NOW + ONE_DAY, "year"); nonZeroMonth = atoi(lr_eval_string("{month}")); lr_save_int(nonZeroMonth, "month"); nonZeroDay = atoi(lr_eval_string("{day}")); lr_save_int(nonZeroDay, "day"); strcat(endDate, lr_eval_string("{month}")); strcat(endDate, "/"); strcat(endDate, lr_eval_string("{day}")); strcat(endDate, "/"); strcat(endDate, lr_eval_string("{year}")); lr_save_string(endDate, "p_endDate"); lr_output_message("End Date is: %s", lr_eval_string("{p_endDate}")); |
Output:
Today’s Date is: 04/27/2011
Start Date is: 4/27/2011
End Date is: 4/28/2011