This is what I do:
Prt_Date = %trimL( %char( datefield: *usa ): '0' );
Of course that only gets rid of the leading zero in the month. I do the same for the time. To get rid of leading zeros in the month you might as well start substringing the date and rebuilding it.
-Kurt
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Schutte, Michael D
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 7:14 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: RE: Suppress leading zero of *DATE field
Why do you need to write a special routine for suppressing the leading zero? Doesn't this do what you want?
Charfield = %Char( datefield : *USA );
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 6:25 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Suppress leading zero of *DATE field
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Timothy Adair <tadair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In the printer output specs of my program, I am attempting to suppress
the leading zero on a *DATE field. According to the RPG ILE manual
(v6r1) I should be able to do this with a "Y" edit code.
Edit codes only apply to numeric fields, as your error message indicated. The date type is not a numeric type. (Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe In the old days, there was no date type, so usually dates were stored as a number, which allowed use of edit codes or edit words to modify how they were displayed. This practice is still very common today.)
If you want to use edit codes, you will have to convert your date field to a numeric type first. You can do this simply with MOVE, or you can use built-in functions.
If reformatting dates for output is something you will be doing a lot (and I would think it is), then my recommendation would be to bite the bullet and write some date routines that you will use over and over again. (I've done this to allow more flexible editing, such as omitting the leading zero for both the day and the month, as Excel normally does.)
John
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