Re: DATE in *PRTF: Missing leading Zero

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>]

I’ve always used an edit word for this

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On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 6:36 AM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've created a *PRTF for tabular output. I want to include the current
> date into it, so I defined a line with DATE(*YY) EDTCDE(Y). It outputs for
> today "5.06.2020". I'm struggling with a tiny detail: Either I want to have
> a leading zero (to make it read 05.06.2020) or to remove the zero on the
> months display (to make it read 5.6.2020).
>
> Reading the according DDS Reference chapters weren't clarifying how to do
> that. Adding a DATFMT to the (constant) field is not permitted by the
> compiler. Do I really need to make it a real field and copy the current
> date into it within the accompanying RPG "driver"? Or is there another
> possibility?
>
> V7R2, German Localization.
>
> Thanks!
>
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