Check the day of year, given a date

Posted by Bob_Mesibov on Nov 18, 2020 4:16 AM EDT
BASHing data; By Bob Mesibov
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The ugliest function in my data-auditing toolkit is "chkday". It checks to see whether an ISO 8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD) and its day number are in agreement, where both are present in a data table. I tried two other ways to get the same result but the code is still ugly.

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