RE: Converting a date

Seems to me part of the problem is... you can't concatenate numeric values. So if you're messing with a date and wish to do that... you're kinda stuck with %editc.

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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 2:51 PM
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Subject: Re: Converting a date

%Char always strips leading zeros. That's why you can't use it on (for example) US zip codes or when converting dates such as in this example.

Your alternative of %EditC with the X edit code is the correct approach - but it should not be needed since %Date can take a numeric value. Unless we're on a really old release. I seem to recall that at V5R1 it could not handle numerics, but darned if I can see when that changed. I would have guessed at V5R2 but not sure and can't see it in the manual.


Jon Paris

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On Jan 6, 2015, at 5:00 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Lets be clear here... I am guessing; I do not know the right answer.

Is it possible that the %char() bif drops leading zeros? That would produce a %char() bif of 162015 which would look bad to the %date() bif. In that case, perhaps the %char(EmpYear2) could be replaced by %editc(EmpYear2: 'X') etc.?

Just a thought.


On 1/6/2015 1:23 AM, Gary Kuznitz wrote:

Thank you for the test code...

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