Re: Expanding Dates

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  The following SQL sets up for and then defines a 
method\expression in the SELECT as an example which is similar to 
what I recall doing in REXX for effectively the same issue; i.e. 
zero-padding variations of M/D/Y to 0M/0D/0Y:

<code>
   create table datechar (c char(8))
   ;
   insert into  datechar values
      ('1/5/9'), ('01/6/9'), ('2/5/09'), ('2/06/09')
     ,('3/5/9'), ('03/06/9'), ('03/7/09'),('4/06/09')
     ,('04/07/09')
   ;
   select c, char(
    replace( replace('0' concat c, '/', '/0'), '00', '0') , 08)
   from datechar
   ;
   ....+....1....+...
   C         CHAR
   1/5/9     01/05/09
   01/6/9    01/06/09
   2/5/09    02/05/09
   2/06/09   02/06/09
   3/5/9     03/05/09
   03/06/9   03/06/09
   03/7/09   03/07/09
   4/06/09   04/06/09
   04/07/09  04/07/09
   ********  End of data
</code>

Regards, Chuck

Buddy McClean wrote:
> Wasn't quite sure of the search to use on the archives. I tried
> 'expanding dates' but that was unproductive.
>
> If you have an incomming date of 4/24/09 or 11/5/09 , where Month
> or Day is zero suppressed. Is there a short way to get them
> accepted. Do they always have to be 2 pos for month and day?