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CAST YYYY/MM/DD to DD/MM/YYYY |
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nukalas2010 |
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 11:22 pm Post subject: CAST YYYY/MM/DD to DD/MM/YYYY |
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Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 220 Location: Somewhere in the World....
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Dears,
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Input:- 2013-11-25
Expected Output:- 25/11/2013 |
Currently tried as below with out CAST..
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DECLARE cPmtDate CHARACTER '2013/11/25';
DECLARE cdate CHARACTER SUBSTRING(cPmtDate FROM 9 FOR 2);
DECLARE cmon CHARACTER SUBSTRING(cPmtDate FROM 6 FOR 2);
DECLARE cyear CHARACTER SUBSTRING(cPmtDate FROM 1 FOR 4);
SET Environment.Variables.DateValue = cdate||'/'||cmon||'/'||cyear; |
And getting the output as expected, but looking for best way to achieve this..
Can anybody throw some light on this.. |
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Simbu |
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 12:26 am Post subject: |
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Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Posts: 289 Location: Tamil Nadu, India
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Hi nukalas2010, Is there any reason for ignoring CAST to achieve this? |
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smdavies99 |
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 12:29 am Post subject: |
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Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Posts: 6076 Location: Somewhere over the Rainbow this side of Never-never land.
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How about casting to a DATE and back again?
{untested code}
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declare c1 char '2013-11-25';
declare d1 DATE;
declare c2 char;
set d1 = cast(c1 as date format 'yyyy-MM-dd');
set c2 = cast(d1 as char format 'dd/MM/yyyy');
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Naturally you could do it all on one line.
Last year I inherited a set of flows that did all of its date/time manipulation with the methods you describe. What was worse was that the developer didn't know (or couldn't be bothered) to code up a few functions to do it because they coded in-line the same thing almost a hundred times. They did the same for creating and populating an MQMD.
Rather sad really. _________________ WMQ User since 1999
MQSI/WBI/WMB/'Thingy' User since 2002
Linux user since 1995
Every time you reinvent the wheel the more square it gets (anon). If in doubt think and investigate before you ask silly questions. |
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nukalas2010 |
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 12:55 am Post subject: |
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Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 220 Location: Somewhere in the World....
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Simbu wrote: |
Hi nukalas2010, Is there any reason for ignoring CAST to achieve this? |
@ Simbu: First of all, I tried to get this using CAST only. But What I did was to do cast directly from character to date to get that output which was failing and my mind force me to do as mentoned in my post to fix it ASAP and not even get Idea as davies suggested below ...
smdavies99 wrote: |
How about casting to a DATE and back again?
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@ Davies: Thanks Davies for your smart help which made it easier..  |
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