Re: How to extract day from date

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doesn't UDAY and *DAY always contain the value you are seeking?

muthathal.ramasamy@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If you want to extract the day from the system date ( I assume it as the 
> numeric day)....You could try it with this sample RPGLE code.
>
>      DDATE1            S               D   DATFMT(*MDY)
>      C     *MDY          MOVE      UDATE         DATE1
>      C                   EXTRCT    DATE1:*D      DAY               2
>      C     DAY           DSPLY
>      C     DATE1         DSPLY
>      C                   SETON LR
>
> If you want to do the same from CL....
>
>              PGM
>              DCL        VAR(&DATE1) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(6)
>              DCL        VAR(&DAY) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(2)
>              RTVSYSVAL  SYSVAL(QDATE) RTNVAR(&DATE1)
>              CHGVAR     VAR(&DAY) VALUE(%SST(&DATE1 3 2))
>              ENDPGM
>  
>  I have assumed the system date to be available in MDY format.
> Based on the system date format on your system, decide on the extraction 
> positions.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Muthu
>
>
>
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