Re: Coverting Dates in Free Format

Oops... messed up my own procedure call!  createDate() needs a string,
so it would actually be:

/free
  rStDate = dateAsInteger( createDate( %editc( hstDate : 'X' ) ) : 6 :
'*MDY' );
/end-free



On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:59, Joel Cochran wrote:
> Yes, using your example rStDate would have to be a date Field.
> 
> If you had my library installed you could do it like so:
> 
> (rStDate defined as 6,0)
> /free
>   rStDate = dateAsInteger( createDate( hstDate ) : 6 : '*MDY' );
> /end-free
> 
> Check out the date operations in my FREE library at
> http://www.rpgnext.com/docs/rnbdates.php
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joel
> http://www.rpgnext.com
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:43, Malchow, Grizzly wrote:
> > I'm trying to convert a date that is *CYMD in a 7 digit Signed field to
> > *MDY in a 6 digit signed field. I keep getting errors. 
> > 
> > Here's my code 
> > 
> > rStDate = %Date(hstSDATE:*MDY);
> > 
> > Does rStDate have to have a date data type?
> > 
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