The date separator can only be set for 2-digit year formats, i.e. *MDY,
*YMD, *DMY, *JUL.
For for digit year formats, i.e. *EUR, *USA, *ISO, *JIS, only 0 is allowed
which means without separator.
You may either use a 2 digit year format or you have to convert the date
into a character representation of the data and then replace the separator
in the string.
You may use RPG functions or the VARCHAR_FORMAT SQL function in embedded SQL
VARCHAR_FORMAT(:YourDate), 'DD-MM-YYYY')
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-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Dave
Sent: Monday, 5 May 2025 15:56
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Controlling the date separater in the RPG program
Its scandalous I know, but I've managed to get through my whole career
without understanding the curly brackets in the doc :DATFMT(fmt{separator})
%date in my program in *eur format will give me '.' as separators. I want
'/'. Nowhere can I find a simple example of the above keyword with a
separator.
Please help.
Thank you
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