Re: Date compare Best Practices

[jfs@xxxxxxx]

Rob,

As long as you're only wanting to reverse the two entered fields, you can 
create a work field that is 8.0 and use the following command.

C       dspfld    mult     1000.0001    wrkfld

This will change the display date from MMDDYYYY to YYYYMMDD.  This isn't an 
efficient method to use for a large number of date reversals, but for just a 
few, it works ok.

Joe

Quoting simafrog <SimaFrog@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi,
> I am looking to take two dates entered and passed to a work file build
> program. They are passed as MMDDYYYY from and to dates. They will be compared
> with from and to dates in a master file and then records are selected that
> pass. Since I have already written the first program that accepts the entry
> from the user I can perhaps change my order in the program there. THe
> presentation to the user must be in the order described. So far I can only
> recall that I would take each date and rearrange it with a series of MOVES
> into a Data Structure. I am interested if there are better ways again
> unfortunately in the older versions of RPG.
> Thanks,
> Rob
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