RE: How to convert DD/MM/AAAA to date

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, David:

This was just discussed last week.  See here:
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201007/msg00866.html.

Dennis Lovelady
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> I have a 10A field with the date filled like DD/MM/AAAA.
> If I do SELECT char(datefield) FROM mytable it shows the date as
> MM/JJ/AAAA.
>
>
> I need to read the file in an RPG and pass the 10A field as a date to
> an external procedure.
>
>  MONITOR;
>   mydate = %DATE ( datefield : *EUR );
>   ON-ERROR;
>
>
> I'm getting an error on each conversion. If I change the / to a . in
> the file, the conversion is ok.
>
> What should I do?
>
> Thanks.
>
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