Iso to numeric date conversion in RPG /free

Bluesbox

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I came across Mitchel Laman's article entitled "RPG free-format date conversion cheat sheet" and felt like I'd struck gold. Thank you Mitchel! However, I cannot get this set of conversions to work: @numA = %dec(%char(@dateA:*ymd/):6:0); @numB = %dec(%char(@dateA:*cymd/):7:0); @numC = %dec(%char(@dateA:*iso-) :8 :0); @numD = %dec(%char(@dateA:*mdy/):6:0); @numE = %dec(%char(@dateA:*usa/):8:0);

I get this error with all five of them: A character representation of a numeric value is in error (C G D F). What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

Asked: February 1, 2012 6:14 PM Last updated: February 28, 2012 9:22 AM

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philpl1jb Feb 1, 2012 6:30 PM GMT

odd .. life and the formats Where you've got / you need 0 the formats like *mdy include the seperators so today is 02/01//12 trying to convert this to a decimal will create an error .. but most of the formats have an alter-ego, go Clark Kent, like this *mdy0 today in this format is 020112 which can be converted to a decimal. Phil/

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