RE: Display field conversion to Time field

Carmen,

I haven't done it.  But you may be able to make use of the CEESECS API.

You'd still need to do some parsing to determine what "picture" string to
give it.  But it might make life a little easier.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/apis/CEESECS.htm

Of course then you'd need to use CEEDATM to put it into a fixed format, and
the %time BIF to convert to a time data type.


Is it really that much to ask that users key in hh:mm?

HTH,
Charles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carmen Nuland [mailto:cnuland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 4:23 PM
> To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Display field conversion to Time field
> 
> 
> We want to have a character time field on a screen, which 
> will then have to
> be converted to a Time datatype within the RPG program.  We 
> were trying to
> come up with all of the different possibilities they could 
> enter, just using
> a pseudo-*USA format:  10:30 AM, 10 AM, 2 PM, etc.  Has 
> anyone else worked
> with this scenario?  Trying to code for all or most of the 
> possibilities
> seems overwhelming.  Thanks.
> Carmen
> cnuland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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