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I think you mean TESTN not TEST(N), but not TEST(DE) works fine.

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 2:17 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: How to check valid date

Is TEST(D) as bad as TEST(N)?  Many times people have tried to use TEST(N) 
to test if a value was numeric only to find out that a string like '0123B' 
may be a valid number because of the way IBM handles a negative sign. 
While that may be true, that's not the function the developer was hoping 
for.

Rob Berendt

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