Re: Expanding Dates

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  Oops... the two examples given by the OP obviously do not meet 
the criteria for using the given string expression.  The given 
string expression requires the single-digit [i.e. less than 10] M, 
D, & Y values.  Hmmm, not sure from what I inferred single-digit 
values only; examples in other posts I guess.  The given expression 
is not very valuable except when the original pattern is already 
known to be of single digit values; an extra zero as prefix plus 
extending beyond the char(8) is probably not acceptable.

Regards, Chuck

CRPence wrote:
> The following SQL sets up for and then defines a 
> method\expression in the SELECT as an example which is similar
> to what I recall doing in REXX for effectively the same issue;
> i.e. zero-padding variations of M/D/Y to 0M/0D/0Y:
>
> <code>
>    create table datechar (c char(8))
>    ;
>    insert into  datechar values
>       ('1/5/9'), ('01/6/9'), ('2/5/09'), ('2/06/09')
>      ,('3/5/9'), ('03/06/9'), ('03/7/09'),('4/06/09')
>      ,('04/07/09')
>    ;
>    select c, char(
>     replace( replace('0' concat c, '/', '/0'), '00', '0') , 08)
>    from datechar
>    ;
>    ....+....1....+...
>    C         CHAR
>    1/5/9     01/05/09
>    01/6/9    01/06/09
>    2/5/09    02/05/09
>    2/06/09   02/06/09
>    3/5/9     03/05/09
>    03/06/9   03/06/09
>    03/7/09   03/07/09
>    4/06/09   04/06/09
>    04/07/09  04/07/09
>    ********  End of data
> </code>
>
> Regards, Chuck
>
> Buddy McClean wrote:
> > Wasn't quite sure of the search to use on the archives. I tried
> > 'expanding dates' but that was unproductive.
> >
> > If you have an incoming date of 4/24/09 or 11/5/09 , where Month
> > or Day is zero suppressed. Is there a short way to get them
> > accepted. Do they always have to be 2 pos for month and day?