Re: Date compare to YYYYMMDD

[JRusling@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks John!

Time to update my BIF links -- which were pointing to 5,2 documents -- and 
we are on 7.2. <g>

John Rusling
Senior Developer/Analyst
Quadion LLC
Minnesota Rubber & Plastics
952.927.1419

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From:   John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
To:     "RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)" 
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   03/16/2016 02:13 PM
Subject:        Re: Date compare to YYYYMMDD
Sent by:        "RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:57 PM,  <JRusling@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This does date to ccyymmdd numeric .. .
>
>      d Nbr80           s              8  0
>
>            Nbr80 = %dec(%char(%date():*iso0):8:0);

%DEC could accept dates directly since something like V5R4. (I do
remember having to do the intermediate %CHAR step at V5R2.)

John Y.