Validate date in COBOL/400
I have date in yyyymmdd format. I want to validate if it lies between a particular period of 2 years let b/w 1 Jan 2012 to 5 April 2014, in COBOL/400.... Please help me as the intrinsic function like that in COBOL are not working in this case.
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Date-to-check = 20120515fromdate = 20120101thrudate = 20140405If date-to-check > fromdateand date-to-check < thrudate perform xxxxxxwhy doesn’t that work? I don’t understand the problem.
If it is because you are comparing yyyymmdd to a date range in ddmmyyyy format – then you need to make the dates a compatible format in working storage. Convert 01012012 to 20120101 and 05042014 to 20140504 – then a comparing to a yyyymmdd value will work.
I have date in yyyymmdd format.
Does that mean it’s not a DATE, but it’s a character or numeric variable instead? If so, then you need to convert it to a DATE or convert your DATE values to match the variable type.
…the intrinsic function like that in COBOL are not working…
Which function? If we don’t know the function, we can’t help with any errors.
What does your programming look like? We can’t tell what might be wrong if we can’t look at it. We need to see the instructions together with any related data definitions.
Tom