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David

That is the *USA format, I believe - you can convert it to a date in RPG like this

%date(datefield : *USA)

See if that works

Vern

On 8/3/2010 7:32 AM, David FOXWELL wrote:

Oops, sorry, I've been away.

Forgot to translate JJ means DD ( jour )

Any idea Birgitta, how they ( the company that sent the file ) would have got all those dates filled in that way?

Thanks!



-----Message d'origine-----
De : David FOXWELL
Envoyé : mardi 3 août 2010 13:39
À : 'RPG programming on the IBM i / System i'
Objet : How to convert DD/MM/AAAA to date

Hi all,

I have a 10A field with the date filled like DD/MM/AAAA.
If I do SELECT char(datefield) FROM mytable it shows the date
as MM/JJ/AAAA.


I need to read the file in an RPG and pass the 10A field as a
date to an external procedure.

MONITOR;
mydate = %DATE ( datefield : *EUR );
ON-ERROR;


I'm getting an error on each conversion. If I change the / to
a . in the file, the conversion is ok.

What should I do?

Thanks.



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