RE: Converting from 8 long dec to 6 long dec

Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: 09 August 2006 17:58

If you don't know the format of the date, surely you don't want to
arbitrarily chop characters out of it?

I'm adding a little more logic here, where I'm trimming and checking the
length.  If they specify a short date format, then they get an error if
it is more than six long.  

It sounds like you're writing a generate "convert date" routine.  You
might consider using an API instead of using TEST and %DATE to convert

it,

that way you don't have to manually code every format.

That's exactly what I've done.  An API to do this for me?  DOH!  Which
API is that?

Thanks for reading.
Terry

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