RE: Using MONITOR For The First Time

*ISO tells the %Date BIF that the incoming data has separators. Try
*ISO0 (where the last character is *zero) instead.

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Subject: Re: Using MONITOR For The First Time

Looks right to me. But consider this... the %Date() function is
expecting you to tell it what format DATECRT is in, not the format that
you wanting
to go to. ASDF_ISO is a date field and it will put in the format that
you
specified when defining the field (default being *ISO I believe).

So if DATECRT = 04282008 then you would want *USA, but if 20080428 then
you have it right for *ISO.

I'm probably wrong for this, but I usually use On-Error *ALL.

Michael Schutte
Admin Professional
Bob Evans Farms, Inc.



rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/28/2008 11:09:02 AM:

Fellow RPGers,


I have the opportunity to use the MONITOR opcode. I am converting an
input file from 8 digits to *ISO. The analyst got an error when
testing so I don't have the exact error code in the documentation
supplied. I coded it thus:

// Convert The Creation Date To ISO For Comparison To The Work
Creation

Date

Monitor; // Monitor For Date
Error
ASDF_ISO = %Date(DATECRT :*ISO); // Convert Create Date
To ISO
On-Error *Program;

ASDF_ISO = %Date(); // Default To Today's
Date
EndMon;

I will default to today's date if the Monitor detects an error. Is
the On-Error *Program correct usage in this example?

Thanks,



Robert Munday
Munday Software Consultants
Montgomery, AL
on assignment in Columbia, SC


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