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  3. April 2003

Re: Date data type in CL

Scott Klement wrote:
> 
> I think you're going to have to create a "wrapper procedure" in RPG to
> convert from the character data type to the ISO date data type.
> 

If the character value is in the correct format for an ISO date, with
the correct separators, the CL can pass a character field to RPG and
have RPG receive it as a date.  The "dateness" is all in RPG's mind -
it's really just 10 bytes.  Scott and Mark are right that the only
change necessary is to remove the VALUE or change it to CONST.

Althought I guess it would be sort of purer to have an intermediate RPG
procedure to explicitly convert from character to date ...

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