Re: Date compare Best Practices

if mmddyyyy are passed as alpha,

/free

    if   %date(mmddyyyy1:*USA) = %date(mmddyyyy2:*USA);
         do something.
    endif;
/end-free


If passed as numeric,

/free
   if %date(%char(mmddyyyy1):*USA) = %date(%char(mmddyyyy):*USA);
       do something...
   endif;

Thanks,

Mark

Mark D. Walter
Senior Programmer/Analyst
CCX, Inc.
mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.ccxinc.com


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Hi,
I am looking to take two dates entered and passed to a work file build
program. They are passed as MMDDYYYY from and to dates. They will be
compared with from and to dates in a master file and then records are
selected that pass. Since I have already written the first program that
accepts the entry from the user I can perhaps change my order in the
program there. THe presentation to the user must be in the order described.
So far I can only recall that I would take each date and rearrange it with
a series of MOVES into a Data Structure. I am interested if there are
better ways again unfortunately in the older versions of RPG.
Thanks,
Rob
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