RE: Date conversion technique, alpha to Numeric

will take an 8 pos. character 
date and return a 6 numeric.

Maybe I am too simplicity or still stuck in the ?golden ? oldies? era
of RPG, but if you wish to put CCYYMMDD to an YYMMDD, use MOVE or
define it in a data structure with YYMMDD as a subset of CCYYMMDD.. 
It is quick, simple and easy.

Eurrat Saylor, Jr.

---- Original Message ----
From: bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Date conversion technique, alpha to Numeric
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:38:37 -0600

There are many ways to do this.
On is to call the QWCCVTDT API. This gives you the most flexibility.
Another you can use a bunch of nested built-in functions, similar to
the
following:

   YYMMDD = %Dec(%date(CCYYMMDD: *ISO0):*YMD);

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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Mike Berman
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:29 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Date conversion technique, alpha to Numeric

HI I searched the archives but could not find an ILE routine that
will take an 8
pos. character date and return a 6 numeric. At some point, the extra
2 are to be
dropped.they are the left most so we are going from a CCYYMMDD to a
YYMMDD.
  
 I would like to use Procedure for this.
  
 thanks,
 Mike