Re: help with SQL date coversion -- RPG400-L

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Maybe use „digits“ instead of „char“? AFAIK „digits“ preserves leading zeros in the string.

HTH
Daniel

Am 16.08.2023 um 18:46 schrieb gio.cot via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Hi all

In a program i found this function that convert data from DDMMYY to YYMMDD
or vice versa.

If i run this :

values dec(varchar_format(to_date(char(150923), 'DDMMYY'), 'YYMMDD'),6) ;

it works

if i run this :

values dec(varchar_format(to_date(char(050923), 'DDMMYY'), 'YYMMDD'),6) ;

it DON'T work

how can i solve this problem ? i think that the problem was caused from the
first zero in the 050923, that came converted to blank ??!!

Thanks in advance

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