Re: Coverting Dates in Free Format

Yes, using your example rStDate would have to be a date Field.

If you had my library installed you could do it like so:

(rStDate defined as 6,0)
/free
  rStDate = dateAsInteger( createDate( hstDate ) : 6 : '*MDY' );
/end-free

Check out the date operations in my FREE library at
http://www.rpgnext.com/docs/rnbdates.php


Thanks,

Joel
http://www.rpgnext.com


On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:43, Malchow, Grizzly wrote:
> I'm trying to convert a date that is *CYMD in a 7 digit Signed field to
> *MDY in a 6 digit signed field. I keep getting errors. 
> 
> Here's my code 
> 
> rStDate = %Date(hstSDATE:*MDY);
> 
> Does rStDate have to have a date data type?
> 
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