RE: "extract" command enhancement

[Chris Bipes <ChrisB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about:      %SetDate(DateField:*C) = Century
                %SetDate(DateField:*Y) = Year
                %SetDate(DateField:*M) = Month
                %SetDate(DateField:*D) = Day
                %SetDate(DateField:*CY) = CentryYear
                %SetDate(DateField:*YM) = YearMonth
                %SetDate(DateField:*CYM) = CentryYearMonth
                %SetDate(DateField:*ISO) = CentryYearMonthMonthDay
                ...

Kind of replaces *MDY move DateNumber DateField and adds a little more
flexibility.  I guess you could also update the move opt code for partial
moves.  I guess we could do the same with a procedure but so few use them,
biff would be easier.

-----Original Message-----
From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 12:28 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: "extract" command enhancement




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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