Re: Date question

You know, I must admit, I tried a variation on what you suggested, and this
is a bit simpler, when you use %Int and %Char (%Int doesn't accept a date as
a parm directly). I changed the test pgm to the following, and it works --
four-digit year and all:

D DateA S D Inz(d'2005-01-01')
D DateB S D Inz
D NumDays S 10U 0 Inz

/Free
*InLR=*On;

NumDays=%Int(%Char(DateA:*ISO0));
DateB=%Date(NumDays:*ISO);

Return;
/End-Free

Thanks for the tip!

On 10/10/05, Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> Wacky? maybe, but saving 6 bytes per element can help sometimes.
>
> I don't disagree - but why bother with the date math stuff? Why not simply
> use %Int to convert the date to its numeric equivalent and store that? It
> has to use less resource and has the advantage that in debug the data will
> still make sense.
>
> Jon Paris
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