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On Wed, 14 May 2008, Doug Palme wrote:
I need to allow the users to enter any of the following values as a valid
date type on a display file:
010108 // Six digit date
20080101 // eight digit ISO date type
01012008 // eight digit USA date type
01/01/2008 // ten digit USA date type
We need to do this all the time, so we wrote a handy little service
program to handle it:
Procedure definitions:
http://www.eaerich.com/docs/era_date_h
Service program source:
http://www.eaerich.com/docs/era_date
API docs:
http://www.eaerich.com/docs/era-api.html
The procedure that does what you want is called char2date(). It accepts a
10 character alpha field that can contain a date in any of the formats you
described above and returns a DATE field equivalent.
James Rich
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