Re: how to handle date comparison

A friend of mine working in a COBOL shop recently tried this and solved the problem with a very small callable RPG program.

My experience with COBOL has never been friendly either :-)

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Richard Schoen
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message: 1
date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 19:08:11 +0000
from: "Stone, Joel" <Joel.Stone@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: [COBOL400-L] how to handle date comparison

In COBOL, what is a good method of comparing a data field date to the current date?

It seems that ALL data fields must be declared to appear with a separator character.

And it sees that the CURRENT-DATE function cannot return a date separator.

Is it mandatory to break apart the current date, and string it back together with a separator?


Surely there must be an easier way to write something like:


If Cust-add-date = ws-curr-date

Where Cust-add-date is type "L" format *MDY


Without breaking apart and rebuilding the current date?

Thanks