getPreviousWeekDay¶
Purpose¶
Returns the previous day that is not on a weekend.
Format¶
-
prev_weekday =
getPreviousWeekDay
(date)¶ - Parameters:
date (scalar) – date in DT scalar format.
- Returns:
prev_weekday (scalar) – previous weekday in DT scalar format.
Examples¶
// Convert string to date to dt date
dt_date = strtodt("2010-11-01", "YYYY-MO-DD");
/*
** Get next trading day and print
** string form
*/
dttostr(getPreviousWeekDay(dt_date), "YYYY-MO-DD");
This prints the previous trading weekday to the screen in string format
2010-10-29
Source¶
finutils.src
See also
Functions getNextWeekDay()