Re: date validate

Sorry if you took exception to my opinion.  But I feel that you are
recreating the wheel.

Most 3rd and 4th generation languages provide a date checker.

I see the TEST (DE) as doing the same thing that your procedure does.

However, I do like your procedure to tell you the day of week and whatever
else that cannot be done with BIF.  We have one that does that too.


Michael Schutte
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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.

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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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Well one way is to use real date fields in your files and programs,
instead of numbers or some such animal.

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is there a way to validate dates in program system
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