Re: convert *usa formatted varying string bombs at v5r4

Steve,

I think your date should be '10/01/2012' (please note the leading zero for
the month).

Regards,
Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx

wrote:

can someone confirm that this code bombs on their system? The following
code converts from character to date. Each of the %date functions work

for

me except the last one. Converting from varying to date when the date
format is *USA.

** --------------------- ConvertTester --------------------------
** test conversion of string to date.
pConvertTester b
dConvertTester pi

d ch30 s 30a
d dt1 s d
d vary30 s 30a varying
/free
// convert character date in *iso format.
vary30 = '2012-10-01' ;
ch30 = vary30 ;
dt1 = %date(ch30:*iso) ;
dt1 = %date(vary30:*iso) ;

// convert character date in *usa format.
vary30 = '10/1/2012' ;
ch30 = vary30 ;
dt1 = %date(ch30:*usa) ;

// this bombs.
dt1 = %date(vary30:*usa) ;

/end-free
p e
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