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I figured it out, the varying field needs a length of 10, I added the
following line to my test program before the conversion and now it gets
the date correctly.

%len(Date_in) = 10;

As long as the length of the varying is 10 or greater then %date works
fine but if it is less that 10 you get an error on %date.

Scott Mildenberger

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Mildenberger
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:46 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: RE: Date Validation

Paul, Your right that it works fine when you have Date_in defined as 10A
but the original post had it defined as varying 256A and that does not
work - I even tried %trim on Date_in. So, I get the error with the
following definition

D Date_in S 256A Varying inz('5/7/2012')

Beyond me to explain!

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Therrien
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:21 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: RE: Date Validation

I tried this code and it worked for me with V7R1.
Input parm of '5/7/2012' or '5/07/2012' or '05/07/2012'
CALL PGM(TESTRPG) PARM('5/7/2012')
CALL PGM(TESTRPG) PARM('05/7/2012')
CALL PGM(TESTRPG) PARM('5/07/2012')

dtestrpg PR extpgm('TESTRPG')
D Date_in 10A

dtestrpg PI
D Date_in 10A

D Date_Out S 8 0
D Date_Outc S 25a

Date_out = %uns(%char(%date(Date_in:*usa):*iso0));
Date_outc = %char(%date(Date_in:*usa):*iso0);



Paul Therrien
Orion South, Inc.
504-374-9551
800-437-7173
ptherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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