Re: Date manipulation in CL

You can do this:

START:      PGM 
 
            DCL        VAR(&SYSDATE) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(6) 
            DCL        VAR(&NEWDATE) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(8) 
 
            RTVSYSVAL  SYSVAL(QDATE) RTNVAR(&SYSDATE)
 
            (***) Substract 14 days
 
            CHGVAR     VAR(&NEWDATE) VALUE(&SYSDATE) 
            CVTDAT     DATE(&NEWDATE) TOVAR(&NEWDATE) FROMFMT(*MDY) + 
                         TOFMT(*YYMD) TOSEP(*NONE) 
 
END:        ENDPGM                                                     

(***) You can use this link to have an idea of how to calculate the date:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci1003100,00.html

Hope this helps,
Good luck!


Peter Vidal 
PALL Corporation / SR Programmer Analyst, IT Development Group
10540 Ridge Rd., Ste 203, New Port Richey, FL 34654-5111
http://www.pall.com

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I have been searching google for some info on how to manipulate dates in 
CL
but am coming up somewhat shorthanded.  Specifically, I am looking to
extract the current system date, subtract a number of days to get a new 
date
and then convert it to a string with the century..

 

Similar to the following:

 

Current system date: 10/26/2006

Subtract 14 days: 10/12/2006

Retrieve century: 06

 

Convert date: 20061012

 

I just have not been able to find much in the way of CL for this..any
helpful links?

 

D.W.



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