Re: How to check valid date

Guilty of being bitten by this one here....

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Re: How to check valid date






Is TEST(D) as bad as TEST(N)?  Many times people have tried to use TEST(N) 

to test if a value was numeric only to find out that a string like '0123B' 

may be a valid number because of the way IBM handles a negative sign. 
While that may be true, that's not the function the developer was hoping 
for.

Rob Berendt