Re: %date() parameter confusion

The %Date BIF is expecting,  *ISO, *USA, etc...  notice these are not
character strings.  As far as I know you cannot use a variable with the
value of *ISO in the second parameter.   The %Date routine sees '*ISO' not
*ISO.

If you want to do something like this you will have to condition.

If inType = '*ISO';
   %Date(inDate:*ISO);
ElseIf inType = '*USA';
   ....

Endif;

Unless.... you are able to pass special characters....




                                                                           
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Hi all,

I found the following in the (WDSc help) documentation for the %date()
BIF:
"The second parameter is the date format for character or numeric input.
Regardless of the input format, the output is returned in *ISO format."

So, I tried doing this:
%date( inDate : inType);

(where inType is a 4A field) to convert a given 6,0 numeric field (passed
from another program) to *ISO, based on the type (also passed by the
caller).

The result was the compile error:
 *RNF0606 .... The second parameter for %DATE is not valid.

Is this a problem with the definition of the 'inType' field, or did the
documentation fail to mention that the second parameter must be known at
compile time?

Adam
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