Re: Date conversion technique, alpha to Numeric -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Date conversion technique, alpha to Numeric
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:07:00 -0500
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Hey, I love BIF's.  But I have to agree that the old overlay method would 
bear checking into for performance reasons.  No MOVE though.

I guess the advantage of the BIF might be the two birds with one stone

Monitor;
// Put date conversion bif here.
On-error;  // RPG's version of a MONMSG
  //  Alert someone that this date is in a bad format.
EndMon;

Rob Berendt

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