Re: RPGLE question

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Venu Gopal wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>      I want to know is there any built in function (BIF) in ROG IV
> that
> does the same function as the DIGITS function will do in SQL. My
> requirement is I have a L type date field in *ISO format. The dates
> are
> coming in ccyy-mm-dd format. I want to return only ccyymmdd without
> the
> separators. Is there any BIF that returns ccyymmdd as a character
> field?
>

I think you can just move the date into an 8 digit numeric field, and
that will remove the dashes.  You could then move it back to an 8 digit
alpha field.

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