Re: Date Data Type Question -- MIDRANGE-L

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Bruce, Jon, Charlie,

>Changing the MOVE factor 1 *YMD to *MDY should do the trick (factor one
>describes the layout of factor 2 (UDATE) in this situation).  Note though
>that JobDate is a Date, not a numeric like UDATE, so you'll have
>separators, etc. as it is currently coded.

 Thanks, that should do the trick.  I assume that I can do an EVAL
NumField = JobDate or 
MOVE JobDate     NumField    to get it back to a numeric field, right?  Is
MOVE OK and EVAL not?

 -mark

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