Re: Suppress leading zero of *DATE field

["Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sligtly wrong, the "date field" must be a numeric "date", not a date.

Timothy Adair wrote:

> Thank you for all responses.  There are ways that I can "roll my own" but 
> here is the quote from the v6r1 ILE RPG Language Reference manual (chapter 
> 10, page 228):
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> "The Y edit code is normally used to edit a 3- to 9-digit date field. It 
> suppresses the leftmost zeros of date fields, up to but not including the 
> digit preceding the first separator. Slashes are inserted to separate the 
> day, month, and year."
>
> Either the manual is wrong or the compiler is.
>
> I will probably move the date to a numeric field and output it.
>
> As always, I appreciate all responses.
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> "Timothy Adair" <tadair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.407.1312320749.2572.rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx...
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> > 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.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the RPG compiler gives *RNF7059 (Editing is not valid with 
> > a field that is not numeric; the Edit Code or Edit Word defaults to 
> > blanks).
> >
> > Am I missing something obvious? 
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