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RE: dates as parms

sure, anything i can learn from is a great help.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Rich [mailto:james@eaerich.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 4:48 PM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: dates as parms


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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