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  3. September 2005

Re: AW: SFL Load - SQL vs. LF

;-) not "date" but "data" validation

tho' I like the on-error processing!

LOL
Vern

At 07:31 AM 9/9/2005, you wrote:


I usualy check dates like this:

monitor;
   datefiled = %date(alphadate);
on-error,
   cry... :-(
endmon;
If you suspect there may be to many wong dates you can do a faster, but not complete check: 

if %xlate('123456789': '000000000': alphadate) = '0000-00-00'
 probably OK, at laest it has the proper structure..
else
  bad
endif;
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Hauser, Birgitta wrote:


Hi,



Is there anyone who can explain this? Data Validation code!
Or point to the original article?

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