Re: Month End CL

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Sims" <ken@ke9nr.org>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: Month End CL


> Hi Chris -
>
> >I am working on a small CL program and I am wondering what the
best way to
> >determine the last day of the month is. I'm not a programmer,
but this is
> >just a small project I'm working on.
>
> The easiest way would be in RPG IV, which can handle this kind
of thing easily.
>
> However if you must do it in CL, use the CVTDAT command.  Try it
with the
> month and year and day 31.  Monitor for message CPF0555.  If you
receive
> that message, try it again with day 30, then 29, then 28.  When
you don't
> get message CPF0555, then the date conversion was successful and
so the
> date was valid.

Or a slightly more efficient way would be to have a table of the
month ends (12) of them, and then plug the value for Feb 29 in
years evenly divisible by 4 unless they are century years (00)
that are evenly divisible by 400.

Unless you actually do mean day - like mon, tue, web, thur, fri.