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On 06-Jul-2011 14:20 , Bradley Stone wrote:
Clarification (which I tried to do before).
Date is stored 8,0P. Format is MMDDCCYY
Jan 1, 2011 is stored as
1012011
Oct 10, 2011 is stored as
10102011
Does this help? :)
Presumably then, the "stored as" means to suggest instead "presented
as [when either implicitly or explicitly cast to a character string;
with minimal\default editing]". The two example values would be "stored
as" x'001012011F' and x'010102011F' respectively for the Binary Coded
Decimal internal representation used for SQL DECIMAL(8). Instead of
first casting to character string, first cast to the string-of-digits
using DIGITS, then substring [optionally by RIGHT() instead of SUBSTR()]
the digits that represent the four-digit year:
substr( digits( decimal8field ), 5, 4 )
or perhaps if a[n explicit cast to a] numeric value is desired:
dec( substr( digits( decimal8field ), 5, 4 ), 4 )
Regards, Chuck
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