Re: SQL Date function question

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

112011??  UGH!  What is 1112011?  November 1st or January 11th?  Lunacy.

Anyway, try RIGHT(TRIM(myDate),4)

Joe

> I've got a program that uses dynamic SQL and I'm having a hard time
> finding documentation for this, or to find out if it's even possible.
>
> The file contains a date in the format MMDDCCYY.  I need to compare
> the year entered in a query with the year in the date.  At first I
> thought I could just substring off characters 5-8, but that won't work
> since for example:
>
> Jan 1, 2011
>
> is stored as
>
> 112011
>
> So obviously that won't work.  :)
>
> Does SQL on the iSeries have a way to convert this type of date to
> something and then yank the year out to compare it against a text
> literal?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brad