RE: FMTDTA/#GSORT Challenge

[Mark Welte <MWelte@xxxxxxxx>]

I had to get help from my dad for this one. He had a copy of an 
article from the DataNetwork (?) magazine that answers this situation. 
:-)

FND     3       3
FNZ     4       4
FNC     1       3

The date is stored like this:

0 M D Y
M D Y F

The FND gets the Y in the third position. The FNZ will get the Y in 
the fourth position. Then the FNC will get the month, day and the 
first digit of the year (which won't have any effect on the sort).

The article answers the bonus question but I don't have the whole 
article to answer it.

Do I still get an 'A' if I got the answer out of a book? :-)

Mark Welte
Denso Manufacturing Tennessee, Inc.


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From:  cmassoglia@vixa.voyager.net[SMTP:cmassoglia@vixa.voyager.net]
Sent:  Tuesday, December 02, 1997 9:49 PM
To:  MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:  FMTDTA/#GSORT Challenge

You have a 6 digit packed MMDDYY date in positions 1-4 of a file.  How 
do
you sort the date in YYMMDD order using FMTDTA or #GSORT?

For extra credit, how to you select a range of dates in MMDDYY format, 
e.g.
120297 to 011598>


Charlie Massoglia, Massoglia Technical Consulting, Inc.
PO Box 1065, Okemos, MI 48854, USA
517-676-9700  Fax: 517-676-1006  EMAIL: cmassoglia@voyager.net

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