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  3. August 2023

Re: help with SQL date coversion

The problem might be the char() function.  I think varchar_format is expectiing a varchar, not a char.

Both of these work:

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

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

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On 8/16/2023 9:46 AM, gio.cot via RPG400-L wrote:
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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