Date TESTing

[Tony Carolla <carolla@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am I missing something? 

I am trying to test a text field for containing a date value. The text field 
is part of a DS array:

D M DS Based(pMessages)
D Qualified
D Dim(5)
D MsgDate 10A
D Chunk1 1A
D MsgType 2A
D Chunk2 3A
D Message 134A

When I specify:
Test(DE) *USA M(Loop).MsgDate;

The compiler barks and says
1) no semicolon at the end of a free format line (it places the 'a' under 
the period after M(Loop))
2) 7030 field MsgDate is not defined. 

If I move the text field to a standalone, and change the statement to:
Test(DE) *USA TempDate;

It compiles fine. Are subfields of DS arrays not allowed on the TEST op 
code?

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