RE: Date conversion to Julian - RPG IV rookie..

Pete,

Your are right, the %Date statement is incorrect.

In your post you have the value '05/28/2005' as the IFS field value.  If it 
truly has the separators the statement should be

jvDate = %Date(INvDate: *USA);

If it doesn't have separators it would be

jvDate = %Date(INvDate: *USA0);

The date format parameter for the %Date BIF is the input date format not the 
output format.  The output of %Date is always *ISO.  Assigning it to a *JUL 
field causes it to be converted from *ISO to *JUL as well.

Rick

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:13 AM
To: RPG Midrange Discussion
Subject: Date conversion to Julian - RPG IV rookie..


I thought this was going to be simple but.....

I have an application that reads through IFS records, parses out fields
and then writes them to a physical file using SQL.  I ran into an issue
with the date.  It comes in as MM/DD/CCYY formatted text and I need to
get it to a Julian date (actually a 5 digit number)  So I thought the
following would work (/FREE):

       INvDate = GetNextFld();  //This returns the next field in the IFS
record. In this case lets assume that it returns '05/28/2005'
   
       //convert the MM/DD/CCYY text to a julian date
       // D spec on the jvDate field is:  D jvDate         
S              6D   DATFMT(*JUL)
      // I get an error HERE at run time  RNX0112 - The Date, Time or
Timestamp value is not valid
          jvDate = %Date(INvDate:*JUL0);
      // Then convert the Julian date to char equivalent
          vDate = %Char(jvDate);

I am suspecting that the runtime error is occurring because the program
is assuming *ISO for the date format and it is coming in as *USA.  I
just don't know how to tell  %Date built in that I am formatting a date
FROM *USA to *JUL.  Do I need to add another step so that I first
convert the character field to *USA date and THEN convert that to a *JUL
format? Like:

     InvDate = GetNxtfld();
      USAdate = %date(INvDate: *USA);
     jvDate = %Date(USADate:*JUL);

Again, I am a little bit new to RPG IV (liking it though) so perhaps I
am just using %Date wrong.....

Thanks,

Pete Helgren

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