Re: date validate

Thank you so much!
Still 
 
eval  myDate = myvalidator(myDate:myFormat);  plus a prototype works
anywhere I want and returns what I want....(encapsulation)
 
cheers,
bill
 

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My opinion is that it's a waste of time to go through all that trouble. 
Making a mountian out of a mole hill.  If all you want to do is test the 
date value in a character or numerical field, then just use the TEST 
function. 

Michael Schutte 
Work 614-492-7419 
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I built a service program that contains various utilities like, day of the 
week for a particular date; change case of a string to upper,lower, name, 
location, sentence; check string for low hex values; find the date that is 
X 
days away from given date; and among others, validate a date based on a 
numeric input....input can be md; mdy; or mdcy and it returns the format 
that I want the date in; zymd; cymd; mdcy; iso; ymd or an error code. 

My vote would be to create a service program or module that could be 
plugged 
in where needed. 


bill 



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Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:11 AM 
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Well one way is to use real date fields in your files and programs, 
instead of numbers or some such animal. 

Rob Berendt