Re: Date verification with multiple values on Green Screen

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 May 2008, Doug Palme wrote:

> I need to allow the users to enter any of the following values as a valid
> date type on a display file:
>
> 010108 // Six digit date
>
> 20080101 // eight digit ISO date type
>
> 01012008 // eight digit USA date type
>
> 01/01/2008 // ten digit USA date type

We need to do this all the time, so we wrote a handy little service 
program to handle it:

Procedure definitions:
http://www.eaerich.com/docs/era_date_h

Service program source:
http://www.eaerich.com/docs/era_date

API docs:
http://www.eaerich.com/docs/era-api.html

The procedure that does what you want is called char2date().  It accepts a 
10 character alpha field that can contain a date in any of the formats you 
described above and returns a DATE field equivalent.

James Rich

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