Excel VBA - Data Type Conversion problem

[PaulC]

All I want to do is display today's date in 3 separate boxes for Day
Month and Year.

I have tried the following code to split the date into 3 strings:

Dim TodaysDate As Date
Dim strDate As String
Dim myDay As String
Dim myMonth As String
Dim myYear As String

TodaysDate = Format(Date, "dd/mm/yy")
strDate = CStr(TodaysDate)
myDay = Left(Cells(strDate, 1), 2)
myMonth = Mid(Cells(srtDate, 1), 4, 2)
myYear = Mid(Cells(srtDate, 1), 7, 2)


However, it says there is a type mismatch on the line:
myDay = Left(Cells(strDate, 1), 2).

There must be a simple solution but I can't find it.

Pau

 

[Don Guillett]

couldn't you have just used the first one to do all three by changing the
format

myDay = Format(Date, "dd")
myMonth = Format(Date, "mm")
myYear =Format(Date, "yy")

 

[JE McGimpsey]

There's no need to use Format - the value passed to XL from VBA will be
parsed just as if it's a keyboard entry. One way:

Dim myDay As String
Dim myMonth As String
Dim myYear As String
myDay = CStr(Day(Date))
myMonth = CStr(Month(Date))
myYear = CStr(Year(Date)


You got the type mismatch error because Cells() requires a number as its
first argument, not a string (see XL/VBA Help!).

 

[PaulC]

Many thanks - that works perfectly

Paul Christi