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  3. February 2004

Re: Using the Test Opcode in Free Format

rob-tksaTn4SAz0AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Consider this, if a bulk of your numeric dates are valid, then the
> following may be a better performer:
> Monitor;
> MyDate=%date(srcDate:*mdy);
> On-Error;
>   //  Do some error processing here
> EndMon;
>
> Otherwise, why test every date to handle the few exceptions?


Thanks for the tip.  This is just code to validate a date entered on a
screen, so what I've got will work fine for my purposes.

Bill

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