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Re: Quick question: catching exceptions in MOVE statements on time/date data

You could use the TEST opcode to check for validity before the MOVE operations.

Brian.

On 13/03/2025 17:33, James H. H. Lampert via RPG400-L wrote:
Fellow programmers:

I've got MOVE statements of the form:

C   *ISO     MOVE   XXXDAT     DATE

and

C   *HMS     MOVE   XXXTIM     TIME

where XXXDAT and XXXTIM are zoned decimal fields.

And occasionally, I will get bad data for one or both of those fields, crashing the program.

What are my options for catching the exceptions before the program crashes? Obviously an error indicator isn't an option, since MOVE doesn't have one. And it's been a while since I've had to deal with this sort of thing, so forgive me if I'm a bit rusty.

--
JHHL


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