On 04/07/2008, at 8:17 PM, IWilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have the following defined in a PRGILE program.
D TestDate S D DatFmt(*iso) INZ(D'2008-07-04')
However what I want to do is assign a value to TestDate at runtime.
ie Something like
Eval TestDate = '2008-07-04'
Can't find anything about how to do this and when I try it
I get a compile time message that the left and right type are not the
same.
TestDate is a date (D) data type but '2008-07-04' is a character (A)
data type so ...
First point: The compiler is rarely wrong ... so ...
Second point: You need to tell the compiler to interpret the
character data as a date.
There are a number of ways to do that but since you are using a
literal constant refer back to how you instructed the compiler to
initialise the data field correctly.
Third point: You already know how to do this.
Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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