Re: SQL Date function question

Hi Brad
In your e-mail, you commented that " people were still commenting on the original error"
One thing that I have noticed is that sometimes, a response to an e-mail does not get posted to this list until quite some time later.
In this instance, I did not see my reply to your original e-mail until one hour and 20 minutes AFTER I sent it

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bradley Stone
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 9:29 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: SQL Date function question

My apologies to those that actually supplied the digits solution.  I was getting bombarded with answers and I mistakingly assumed the DIGITS function wouldn't zero pad the number returned, and also getting frustrated since I originally explained it wrong, but tried to correct that a couple times and people were still commenting on the original error.  :)

All I needed to do in the end was change substr(char(field),5,4) to
substr(digits(field),5,4) and it worked like a charm (and a lot less messy than my original solution).

Thanks again!

Brad

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yeah, I gave him the DIGITS solution 14 hours ago...but it was at the
bottom my reply....

Charles

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:08 AM,  <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I truly think that Brad is skimming the answers and is not reading
them thoroughly.

Brad, if you use digits instead of cast, or char, you will be fine.
You will still have your leading zero.  If you use Alan Campin's
iDate function it will work.  Have faith.


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