Re: Date compare Best Practices

[simafrog <SimaFrog@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This doesn't appear to be working correctly.

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> From: jfs@xxxxxxx [mailto:jfs@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 12:05 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Date compare Best Practices
> 
> 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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