Re: Date math in RPG

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxx>]

Dave Mahadevan wrote:

> Jon Paris wrote:
>
> > Uh ... what are the opcodes for date math in RPG ??
> >
> > For converting from one type to another (MDY to YMD for example) just a 
>simple
> > MOVE statement.
> >
> > For duration calculations, ADDDUR, SUBDUR.  To extract components EXTRACT. 
>To
> > test for a valid date TEST.
> >
>
> Please note that TESTD, ADDDUR, SUBDUR are only available in ILE RPG and not 
>on
> the old RPG/400, or S36E RPG

Not the most efficient of resources, but small RPGLE programs with RETRN could 
hold
an RPGII/III shop for a while.

Wasn't there some discussion way back about the performance hit on math 
overflow?
Maybe by eliminating that, the cost of a CALL may not be so high after all.

JM2CW

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