Re: how to extract the most common date format - YYYYMMDD

Sorry - I misunderstood the original intent.

There's a much easier answer than the one you derived - you should be able
to just redefine the target field. It may not fit directly into what you
are doing depending on how/where A0468X-DUE-DATE is defined but all you
need to do is this:

01 ATR.

05 A0468X-DUE-DATE.

10 ws-num-date Pic 9(8).

and then:
compute ws-num-date
= function EXTRACT-DATE-TIME (ws-date '@Y%m%d').

A0468X-DUE-DATE is now an alpha field with the desired value.



On 2012-11-28, at 2:57 PM, Stone, Joel wrote:

Thanks but here is IBM doc example from "Websphere Development Studio

ILE COBOL reference" v5 SC09-2539-02:

MOVE FUNCTION EXTRACT-DATE-TIME (date-2 '%m/%d') to alphanum-1.

It's a stinker - I guess I will have to format as 2012/11/28 and then

SUBSTRING out the slashes.

It seems that once the slashes or spaces are gone from the edit string,

the compiler chokes because it thinks it is numeric.

Is it possible that it is impossible to pull the most common date

format? Does no one else use the cobol compiler with dates?

So here is the ugly code that I created:

move function EXTRACT-DATE-TIME (ws-date '@Y/%m/%d')
to ws-date-yyyy-mm-dd
string ws-date-yyyy-mm-dd (1:4)
ws-date-yyyy-mm-dd (6:2)
ws-date-yyyy-mm-dd (9:2)
delimited by size into A0468X-DUE-DATE of AFTR

Does anyone else use DATE functions in COBOL/ILE? Maybe the are full of

bugs??

There are no examples on a google search.





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Subject: Re: [COBOL400-L] how to extract the most common date format -

YYYYMMDD

Haven't got time to test Joel but if I recall correctly the editing

should go in the target field's pic.

On 2012-11-28, at 1:16 PM, Stone, Joel wrote:

This works:

move function EXTRACT-DATE-TIME (ws-date '@Y %m %d')
to A0468X-DUE-DATE of AFTR

But result is "2012 11 28" (embedded spaces).

The obvious fix is

move function EXTRACT-DATE-TIME (ws-date '@Y%m%d')

<--------no spaces between ymd

to A0468X-DUE-DATE of AFTR


But this gives compiler error

* 445 MSGID: LNC2780 SEVERITY: 30 SEQNBR: 027800
Message . . . . : Numeric function 'FUNCTION

EXTRACT-DATE-TIME' was

found, but was not allowed in this context. Statement

discarded.

Any idea how to get YYYYMMDD result?

Thanks

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