RE: Date conversion technique, alpha to Numeric

The BIF's also make it obvious what you're trying to accomplish. Everyone raise 
your hand who's been burned by mis-understanding a MOVE!
 
Matt

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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;

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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


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