RE: Prompt Override Program example using date & time?

Bummer, that's what I kinda figured.  I agree, the single quotes surrounding
values are kinda ugly.

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Douglas Handy
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 2:57 PM
>
> Dan,
>
> > Oooh, in addition to all that, does using *CHAR vs. *DATE allow
> > you to NOT have to surround a date value with single quotes?
>
> No -- that is a generic limitation of the command parser, not just the
> prompter.  For example, you can't specify this from the command line:
>
>   CHGJOB  DATE(10/25/2004)
>
> because 10/25/2004 is construed as an expression ( = 10 / 25 / 2004 or
> about 1.996E-04).
>
> In fact, I ended up deciding to populate my POP-supplied dates without
> separators just because of that issue.  I still accept anything they
> key, with or without separators, but didn't like the looks of the
> single quotes within the command prompt panel.
>
> Doug