Built in Function ILE RPG

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxx]

 >> I was looking around for other better methods, because  in RPG/400, it
is
just  one  statement ( multiplying by  10000.01),

You are already using a "better" method !  The multiply by 10000.01 is an
abortion that I'd happily see people flogged for using (not that I have any
strong opinion on the subject!!)

Anyway - I will not tell you that you can still use this horrible approach
in RPG IV (even though you can <grin>) - but I will point out that your
three step approach is overkill.  You only need two:

 C    *USA     Move    NumDateUSA    RealDate
 C    *ISO     Move    RealDate      NumDateISO

RealDate can be in any 4 digit year format (*ISO, *USA, etc. it doesn't
matter)

If you absolutely have to have it in a single statement (don't confuse
number of statements with operational efficiency or clarity of code) the
you can wrap the conversion as a procedure and use it like this.

 C             Eval    NumDateISO = USAtoISO(NumDateISO)

Where USAtoISO looks like this: (not tested and columns are not correct)

 P USAtoISO     B
 D              PI              8  0
 D  NumDateUSA                  8  0

 D RealDate     S                D   DatFmt(*ISO)
 D NumDateISO                   8  0


 C    *USA     Move    NumDateUSA    RealDate
 C    *ISO     Move    RealDate      NumDateISO
 C             Return  NumDateISO

 P              E



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