Re: Need help testing for date errors

In a message dated 7/25/00 2:15:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
JGiusto@patuxent.com writes:

<< I know Bill and he is NOT a student.  I do know that he is the sole
 programmer in his shop and has recently begun using RPGIV.  I do not think
 at all that he is lazy (based on my experience of working with him).  Have
 you ever been overloaded with projects and just knew that there had to be a
 better way of doing something but just not have time to look it up?  I have
 been there, done that.  And before this list, on some of those occasions,
 have coded the long way around something because of time constraints.  I
 tell my self that when I have time I will look it up/learn it and go back
 and fix the code, but we all know what happens to those ideas in a
 back-logged shop<g>.  While I can understand your frustration with some of
 the simpler questions (as you are probably a seasoned programmer), what
 would it have taken to give a one line answer like *MDY TEST(D) DATE ... 
 Besides, who says it is cheating to use what ever resources are available to
 you to solve a problem?
 </RANT *OFF>
 
 My apologies to the list if this post is inappropriate.  Bill is a good
 friend and a good programmer.  Mostly self-taught and versed in several
 languages.  I know that I myself have asked simple questions when the answer
 should have been staring me in the face, and I am thankful for the list
 members that bear with me during those times and give up the answer anyway.
 
 Joe Giusto II
 Patuxent Publishing Company
 10750 Little Patuxent Parkway
 Columbia, MD 21044
 
 -----Original Message-----
 From:  rbrightman@amclog.com [SMTP:rbrightman@amclog.com]
 Sent:  Thursday, July 20, 2000 1:33 PM
 To:    RPG400-L@midrange.com
 Subject:   Re: Need help testing for date errors
 
 Look up "TESTING" in your manual. Note: This service is NOT a "quick answer"
 service for students tring to cheat in order to pass a course! This is what
 you are paying your teacher for.  >>

Thanks for the good words Joe and thanks to everyone else for thier help. I 
checked out the "TEST(D)" operation code before I had posted the message. My 
book did not have information about testing decimal/character fields for a 
valid date using "*MDY".

It's good to know their are more people willing to help out others than that 
other person who is more a disservice than anything else. I wish I could be 
the perfect programmer he his.

Bill

PS: Thanks again everyone.
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