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  3. February 2007

Wrong date

I have a text file with a date in a fixed position, I need to convert as much as possible from the file to a table. This works almost fine: 

SELECT decimal(substring(txt, 5, 7)) as codigo,
cast(substring(txt, 84, 4) || '-' || substring(txt, 88, 2) || '-' || substring(txt, 90, 2) as date) as fecha 
FROM libr.file
It goes Ok until it finds a wrong date. (19570229 is the first problem) this is in record 2,035, the SQL gives a SQL0180 and it stops. It will be Ok to skip the record. Is there a way to tell SQL to skip the wrong date? or a way to select all records with wron dates? 
It is a one time convertion.

TIA

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