Re: Now what? (was "free-format move *USA date value to 6-digit numeric in YMD format")

Scott Klement wrote:

There are two working test snippets of code below.  On my v5r2 box, TEST1

works, and TEST2 doesn't. TEST2 issues RNQ0114 "The year portion of a Date or Timestamp value is not in the correct range (C G D F)" for the statement

doing the %int(%char.

This absolutely baffles me.. why this particular error? Maybe it doesn't understand the DATFMT(*USA) on an array? Have you tried leaving that off, and working with it as *ISO?

FWIW, I never ever use DATFMT on a D-spec like you did, which might be why I never ran into this particular error. Whenever I work with dates, I always work with them in *ISO format, and then when it's time to print them or whatever I want to do with them, THAT's the point at which I specify the format.

In your case, since you're specifying *YMD0 for the output, why would you care what format the input is?

But, even so, your code SHOULD work... and in fact it does on my machine. (I'm at V5R3, but I specified TGTRLS(V5R2M0) when I compiled it.) and I see that others have tried it and didn't have problems on V5R2 either. Hmmm...