Re: Concatenating some data

[Michael Jacobsen <MJacobsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm glad that helped.  Here is the only way I can think of to not include 
the seconds:

Eval MM = %Subdt(UpdateDTime:*MN)
Eval HH = %Subdt(UpdateDTime:*H)
Eval LastUpdateD = %Char(DUpdateDDate) + ' ' + %Char(HH) + ':' + %Char(MM)


rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/04/2005 03:08:02 PM:

> 
> That took care of the problem Mike, thanks.....although I noticed 
something 
> with th time that I don't like.  Time is displayed as hh.mm.ss when I 
really 
> was hoping for HHMM or HH:MM definitely don't need seconds and need to 
make 
> sure it is military time.
> 
> Oh well I'll have to work on that some
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:20:52 -0500, Michael Jacobsen wrote
> > Unless I am misunderstanding what you are doing, why use the data 
> > structure?
> > 
> > Eval LastUpdateD =  %Char(DUpdateDDate) + '  ' + %Char(UpdateDTime)
> > 
> > Can't you do that, with LastUpdateD defined as Alpha?
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/04/2005 02:09:24 PM:
> > 
> > > I have a display file that has a 19 byte character field called 
> > DLSUPDATED.
> > > 
> > > I need to concatenate two fields from a physical file and place it 
in 
> > this 
> > > field.  Those two fields are LSPUPDDT (date field), and LSPUPDTIM 
(time 
> > > field).
> > > 
> > > I created a data structure for this:
> > > 
> > > 0041.03 D                 DS 
> > > 0041.04 DLASTUPDATED               1     16 
> > > 0041.05 DUPDATEDDATE              1     10 
> > > 0041.06 DUPDATEDTIME             12     19 
> > > 
> > > Then in a subroutine I moved the physcial file fields into the 
> > DUPdATEDDATE 
> > > and DUPDATEDTIME portions of the Data structure.  then attempted to 
> > write it 
> > > out with a move statement moving the LASTUPDATED to the display 
field 
> > > DLSPUPDATED.
> > > 
> > > I am getting a compile error that is telling me the fields are not 
> > defined. 
> > > there is also another error that is telling me that the types are 
not 
> > > compatible.....
> > > 
> > > Any help would be appreciated....I'm at a loss on how to correct 
this.
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