RE: Date Type -to- Numeric

What would be smarter is if they Retrofitted the new BIFs, etc to prior
releases....sigh 


Thanks,
Tommy Holden


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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Captain Jerry
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:27 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Date Type -to- Numeric

That would have been smart of me to include!

V5R1

Will either your R2 or R3 option work? (I'll be trying while I wait for
a
response ~  Thanks...


On 4/19/06, Michael_Schutte@xxxxxxxxxxxx <Michael_Schutte@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> What version are you on?
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> V5R2
>
> %Int(%Char(%Date():*ISO0));
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> V5R3
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> %Dec(%Date():*ISO);
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> Michael Schutte
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> Hi RPG'ers,
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> I'm writing a simple utility to fix some data in a file, and brushing
up
> on
> my /Free format coding as well.
>
> I can't seem to figure out how to get a Date Type field (*System Date)
> into
> our standard way of storing dates, which is Numeric 8,0 YYYYMMDD.
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> Is there an easy way to do this without jumping through Data Structure
> hoops, or breaking out of /Free to use Move?
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> Help!  and Thanks,
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> //Jerry/
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