Re: Date validation of different formats in RPG

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, John King wrote:

>  At the time they need to validated, the dates have already been parsed into
> 10A fields in a subfile program, I'm considering writing a procedure to make
> a 'best-guess' as to the date's format - something akin to the code below.
> Someone has to have addressed this situation before - would you care to give
> out a few pointers?

This describes an API we wrote to do exactly what you are talking about:

http://www.eaerich.com/docs/era-api.html#char2date

The code is here:

http://www.eaerich.com/erasys/

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James Rich

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