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  3. February 2007

Re: Date conversion technique, alpha to Numeric

Yes, except for the part about defining the file's field as a date type with a DATFMT. Why would anyone do that? That seems to me to be degrading the appeal of a date field. 

Joe Pluta wrote:

From: Booth Martin

Then I misunderstood this sentence: "it's a conversion from the file's
*MDY format to your *ISO program format."


When the file is read in from the database, the buffer that is passed to the
caller has a date field in it.  That date field is formatted in the manner
specified by the DATFMT keyword on the field definition.  However, if you
then specify an I-spec for that field with a DIFFERENT format, RPG will then
convert the buffer data (which is itself a conversion from the 4-byte
internal format) into the format you specified.

Make sense?

Joe

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