RE: Why isn't my %xlate working?

why not just string this together?
message = 'Use date between ' + %Char( minimumdate : *USA) + ' and ' +
%Char(TodaysDate:*USA);
or whatever date format you want?

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From: David FOXWELL <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/06/2010 09:03 AM
Subject: RE: Why isn't my %xlate working?
Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



All,

d'oh!

-----Message d'origine-----
De : rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Mark
Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc.
Envoyé : vendredi 6 août 2010 15:33
À : RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Objet : Re: Why isn't my %xlate working?

Because %xlate is a character by character translation

message = %XLATE ( '11.11.1111' : %CHAR ( minimumDate ) :
message );
message = %XLATE ( '22.22.2222' : %CHAR ( TodaysDate ) :
message );

is the same as

message = %XLATE ( '11.11.1111' : '01.01.0001' : message );
message = %XLATE ( '22.22.2222' : '06.08.2010' : message
);

1 will translate to a 0 (see first character in the first
Xlate string), 2 will translate to a 0, and . will translate to a .

It is not finding the whole string '11.11.1111' and
translating it to '01.01.0001' you need to use %replace to do that.


Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: David FOXWELL <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by:
rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 08/06/2010 08:58AM
Subject: Why isn't my %xlate working?


This must be obvious, but not to me :

User enters a date which must be between 2 dates.

IF DateEntered > TodaysDate OR

DateEntered < minimumDate;

message = 'Use date between 11.11.1111 and 22.22.2222';
// Message returned by a standard error procedure.

message = %XLATE ( '11.11.1111' : %CHAR ( minimumDate ) :
message );
message = %XLATE ( '22.22.2222' : %CHAR ( TodaysDate ) :
message );


ENDIF;


How on earth am I getting this at the end : message = 'Use
date between 00.00.0000 and 00.00.0000' ?

Ps : I realize I don't NEED the xlate function.


Thanks.
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