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Have you considered defining the screen field as an "L" type field? You ought to at least look at that choice - it may pleasantly surprise you. A whole lot of problems just go away for you.




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

I thought I could check the length of the field coming in, so if anything is other than 6,8, or 10 it is automatically an invalid date...that part is easy......

I wanted to check for a valid date value with the TEST(DE) but it seems that will not work either since even though 010108 is tested as

TEST(DE) *MDY DateField;

It generates an error...which I am assuming is because the field is a 10a and not a 6,0.
So I would need to check and make sure that it is also numeric for the 6 and 8 digit entries correct?

I know, it sounds crazy, but that is what I have been instructed to do......


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