Code to get past months

Question

Hi,
The foll. is the code from the sdn posting for calculating past 12 months from a given date.
data: olddate like sy-datum,
newdate like sy-datum.
clear: olddate, newdate.
now pass given year/period to olddate, then use below function module.
CALL FUNCTION 'MONTH_PLUS_DETERMINE'
EXPORTING
months = '-12'
olddate = olddate
IMPORTING
NEWDATE = newdate.
if i want to try out the code that is above to understand how it works, can i just copy paste in se38 and just change the olddate as parameter , so that i can enter a date, will it work or how should i test. can anyone help me here.
Thanks
Ravi
Message was edited by: ravi raj

Answer 1

Hi Ravi
This code will not get the past twelve months . This code will just return a date which is twelve months back.
I.e. say if you pass 01-OCT-2005 it will return 01-OCT-2004.
To get past 12 months you can check for answer in that same earlier post . There is no function you have to write abap. However you can cut / paste and see how this code works.
<b>parameter pdate like sy-datum.
data: olddate like sy-datum,
newdate like sy-datum.
clear: olddate, newdate.
olddate = pdate.
CALL FUNCTION 'MONTH_PLUS_DETERMINE'
EXPORTING
months = '-12'
olddate = olddate
IMPORTING
NEWDATE = newdate.
write :/ newdate.</b>
Cheers
Message was edited by: Sanjay Sinha