Re: "extract" command enhancement

Not to be picky, but is "%extract" really the best name for something
that you can insert data into?

How about %dateelem (but then what about times & timestamps? hmmmm...)
maybe someone else can suggest a better name, my mind is drawing up
a blank... :)




boldt@ca.ibm.com wrote:
>
> Jon wrote:
> >Any chance of including a reverse extract (INSERT?) in that group
>  Hans?  There
> >are a lot of duration calculations that would be simplified if you
>  could 'push'
> >(say) a new month into a date.
>
> I like the idea!  Currently, we're thinking of a %extract
> bif.  We could have something like:
>
>    eval %extract(date:*m) = month
>
> This would be consistent with %subst, which can be used on
> either side of an assignment.  But that name doesn't look
> quite right.  We may have to come up with a different name
> for that bif.
>
> I'll add the idea to our proposed enhancements file.
>
> Cheers!  Hans
>
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
>
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