Re: Date conversion technique in QUERY

["Carl Galgano" <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raj:
Thanks for the reply.  I came up with this also, but thought it was alot of
trouble to do and should be a better way.  However, the technique does work.
Thanks for the help.
Carl
Carl Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
540 Powder Springs Street
Suite C19
Marietta, GA  30064
770-422-2995
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rajan.Srinivasan@Allfun.com <Rajan.Srinivasan@Allfun.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: Date conversion technique in QUERY


>Carl,
>                 I   know one round way to do that.
>
>On defining the Result field.
>
>
>CHARD                  DIGITS(YYMMDD)                   -    This will
>convert the field into  Alphanumeric
>
>TYY                         SUBSTR(CHARD, 1, 2)
>
>TMM                         SUBSTR(CHARD, 3, 2)
>
>TDD                         SUBSTR(CHARD, 5, 2)
>
>RESULT                 TMM ||  TDD ||  TYY          or       TMM  ||  '/'
>||  TDD  '/'  ||  TYY
>
>
>-  Raj
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>"Carl Galgano" <cgalgano@ediconsulting.com> on 02-09-99 06:43:33 AM
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>Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
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>To:   "Midrange List" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>cc:    (bcc: Rajan Srinivasan/Servicing/SuperiorBank)
>Subject:  Date conversion technique in QUERY
>
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>
>anyone have a quick and dirty way to convert a date (6,0) in a YYMMDD
>format
>to a MMDDYY format for printing in a Query?  I know I can multiply by
>100.0001, however Query thinks it knows better and won't let you chop off
>the left most 2 significant digits, which makes this technique not work.
>(I
>get the dreaded +++++++++ as the output for this field).
>Surely someone has solved this little problem.
>TIA,
>Carl
>Carl Galgano
>EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
>540 Powder Springs Street
>Suite C19
>Marietta, GA  30064
>770-422-2995
>mailto: cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
>http://www.ediconsulting.com
>EDI, Communications and AS400 Technical Consulting
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