Advances the specified date to the next weekday.

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#include <codecogs/units/date/nextweekday.h>

using namespace Units::Date;

int

nextWeekDay (int nDate, bool forward=true)[inline] Advances the specified date to the next weekday.

Function Documentation

This function advances the provided date to the next weekday, ensuring that it lies between Monday and Friday.

Example 1:

To compute the Christmas and New Year holidays:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <codecogs/units/date/nextweekday.h>
#include <codecogs/units/date/date.h>
 
using namespace Units::Date;
 
int main()
{
  int holidays[4];
  holidays[0] = date("24 dec 2005");                             // If your lucky!
  holidays[1] = nextWeekDay(date("25 dec 2005")-1);  // Christmas or if a weekend the next Monday.
  holidays[2] = nextWeekDay(holidays[1]);                   // next weekday after Christmas (Boxing day).
  holidays[3] = nextWeekDay(date("1 jan 2006")-1);     // New year.
  return 0;
}

Remember that nextWeekDay automatically increments the date, so even if the give date is already a weekday it still advances - we therefore fool nextWeekDay by putting -1 after

date(

...) , so it gives us the specified date or if a weekend the next weekday.

Parameters:

nDate	is a serial number of days from 24 November 4714 BC (1 January 4713BC in the Julian Calendar) - also known as the Julian Period.
forward	is a boolean that controls which direction the next week day is found in: