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Casey_Grimes2
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Velocity Scripting: Multidate Comparison?

  • August 23, 2016
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I have a unique use case where I need to analyze the newest date amongst n values of dates for a Velocity script, but unfortunately, I can't think of any way to do that with multiple values using $date.difference because n is highly variable. I had thought of converting all timedate stamps to Unix epochs and then just finding the highest value, but I don't see any way to do that and thus am stumped.

Is there any reasonable way to do this sort of comparison?

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Best answer by SanfordWhiteman

Assuming these are actually Date-y Strings:

#set( $dateyList = ['2016-08-21', '2013-04-22', '2017-09-03', '2012-02-01'] )
#set( $dateyList = $sorter.sort($dateyList) )
${dateyList[$math.sub($dateyList.size(),1)]}

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SanfordWhiteman
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August 23, 2016

Assuming these are actually Date-y Strings:

#set( $dateyList = ['2016-08-21', '2013-04-22', '2017-09-03', '2012-02-01'] )
#set( $dateyList = $sorter.sort($dateyList) )
${dateyList[$math.sub($dateyList.size(),1)]}
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