RE: "extract" command enhancement

I actually quite liked %subdtz ("sub-ditz") but I take Jon's point about its
being potentially too restrictive. In which case I vote %subfld the best
general purpose alternative so far.

Dave Kahn
Johnson & Johnson International (Ethicon) France
Phone : +33 1 55 00 3180
Email :  dkahn1@jnjfr.jnj.com (work)
           dkahn@cix.co.uk      (home)


-----Message d'origine-----
De: Jon.Paris@halinfo.it [mailto:Jon.Paris@halinfo.it]
Date: 17 September 1999 18:32
À: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Objet: Re: "extract" command enhancement




 >> The name we're currently leaning towards is "%subdtz".
 >> As in, the sub-part of a date, time, or timestamp value.

Not wild about that one Hans - for one thing I don't think I'd ever be able
to
remember it <bg>.  It's just too arcane. One of the things I was trying to
suggest with %Part - %Segment - %Subfld - %Item was that the portion
extracted
depended on the *D or whatever that was coded - I don't see that the BIF
needs
to have a strong association with date/time/timestamp per se.  Who knows -
there
may be other things we want to extract components from in future - why tie
it to
DTZ?
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