Re: Substring Start or Length Error

Your problem is that hte Char function will suppress leading zeros and left 
justify the result, so that if you have a value of 09052006  the result of 
%Char would be '9052006' which is only 7 bytes.
I would suggest you use the %Date function with a monitor for invalid date as 
follows:
Monitor
Char10 = %Char(%Date(Date8) : *MDY) : *ISO))
On-Error
Char10 = *Zero
EndMon
 
Jeff Young 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Captain Jerry <captainjerry@xxxxxxxxx>
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:01:59 AM
Subject: Substring Start or Length Error


Hi group,

I have a numeric field containing a date in YYYYmmDD format (20061026) 8,0
which I need to convert to mm/DD/YYYY (Character field 10,A) ~ The below
code works fine if I actually have a date in the numeric field, but if the
date is all *Zeros (00000000) I get a "Substring Start or Length Out of
Range" Error.  Is this right, or is there a flaw somewhere?

Char10 = %Subst(%Char(Date8):5:2)  +  '/'  +
               %Subst(%Char(Date8):7:2)  +  '/'  +
               %Subst(%Char(Date8):1:4);

Obviously my solution is to check for all zeros and just clear the character
field instead of putting out '00/00/0000' ~ Just wondering why the error...

Thanks,
//Captain Jerry/