I disagree. The pattern seems directly that of a student.

However, this seems to be a student for personal motivation rather than enrolled in a course. That makes me feel more interested in helping.

Providing some general logic doesn’t seem too harmful…

I agree. I was wondering more in a general context. An assignment due on “Monday” won’t be helped much by a discussion on Wednesday.

Answers could be useful to students in later enrollments, but assignments should be changed and updated anyway. If answers are available, course updates are almost forced. We might see fewer ‘assignments’ requiring RPG II and III. Courses should move into the current century.

For this particular OP, a difficulty has been in keeping a conversation going. Time zones and even days of the week interfere. I’d guess that language doesn’t help. Iit’s harder to get the idea across that help can be given to students, just not answers. Two-way conversation is important for help

Now, for the problem itself, there are multiple possibilities. The best will probably depend on specific requirements such as whether or not dates are guaranteed to be less than a year apart. (And we know how likely “guarantee” is.)

Consider a 24-element array containing month names January through December twice. Pull the month number from the first date and the duration in months from the two dates. With those two values and the array, you can just zip through the names. (Technically, there should only need to be 23 names since there’d never be a need for the final “December”.) The logic would be trivial. It’s just like positioning along a ‘number line’ and ticking of the integer points.

But the problem itself is a little unlikely, so the particular logic gets meaningless.

Tom

“If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tom

When curYear = startYear
loop from startMonth to 12

When curYear = endYear
loop from 1 to endMonth

Other
loop from 1 to 12

end Year loop

Something roughly along those lines

I understand your example. I want to know about the process beyond just the example.

Without a description of the whole process, it sounds like an academic assignment or schoolwork or interview problems; and we can’t do work on those.

If that’s what it is, we need to see the work that you have done first. Then we help to guide you past obstacles and into ways of solving the problem.

If that’s not what it is, then it should not be difficult for you to describe how we should handle the examples that I gave.

Tom

date1 = 1100128 ( which is 2010-01-28 : January)

date2 = 1120101 (which is 2012-01-01 ;January)

Because they cover more than one year, it results in 23 months.

Here Date1 is 1100128 but in my example I have given as 1110128( so 11month gap oly)

How to write thses 11records in my file..

Does that mean that you would write 11 records to the file?

What about these dates:

date1 = 1100128 ( which is 2010-01-28 : January)

date2 = 1120101 (which is 2012-01-01 ;January)

Because they cover more than one year, it results in 23 months.

Or these dates:

date1 = 1120101 ( which is 2012-01-01 : January)

date2 = 1120128 (which is 2012-01-28 ;January)

Same year, same month. Do you need to write “January” to the file?

In you original example, your list of months started with “February” even though the first date was in “January” (date1 = 1110128).

So… Are there restrictions on the date values that you start and end with?

Tom