RE: dates as parms -- RPG400-L

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Subject: RE: dates as parms
From: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:47:32 -0600 (MDT)
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Smith, Mike wrote:

> the idea behind the procedure was to pass a desired format and get a date
> back in the format.

It sounds like you just want date-to-character and character-to-date
convertors that are a little nicer that what *mdy,ymd,etc move does.  We
have two just such functions: char2date() and date2char().  I can post the
code (they are short) if you want.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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