RE: Date TESTing

Tony,

I had the same problem back in February and queried the list.
Barbara Morris replied a couple of days later that even though the manual
says they will work for 'all' operations, they do not work with 'TEST'.
The archives have my original post, but I could not find Barbara's reply.
(There are some other op codes that they may not work with) 

Tim Kredlo
Exterior Wood, Inc


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On Behalf Of Tony Carolla
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 4:21 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Date TESTing


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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