RE: Moving *ISO date to *MDY date in Free Format

If ISODATE is really a date field, then converting it to character is
unnecessary. I was assuming that ISODATE was a numeric in my previous
response.

This will convert a date value to a decimal value.
MDYDATE=%dec(ISODATE:*mdy)




From: "Smith, Mike" <Mike_Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i"
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Date: 02/02/2010 03:39 PM
Subject: RE: Moving *ISO date to *MDY date in Free Format
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Thanks
This approach worked.
Seems more confusing, but I guess I'll get used to it.

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gene Burns
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 2:38 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Moving *ISO date to *MDY date in Free Format

If isodate is a date field, this will work from V5R2 on:

MDYDATE = %dec(%char(ISODATE:*mdy0):6:0); // D'ccyy-mm-dd' to
mmddyy


On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Smith, Mike
<Mike_Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

This is probably simple to do, but I'm struggling.

I converted an existing program to Free, however, this didn't

convert.

How do I convert this ?

C *ISO Move CMSTART ISODATE
C *MDY Move ISODATE MDYDATE

ISODATE is defined in my D specs
MDYDATE is a field defined in my Display file 6.0 using a 'Y' edit

code.

Thanks
Mike



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