Re: Y2K bug in DATE?

["Adel Darwish" adel.darwish@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Carl
how does the formula below be modified to have the date format as ddmmyyyy
( ie 29-09-20030
And what is the simplest way in writing it in the startup.int file as a
command i.e. BC default dz=???? or something else?
Also do you know what the text disappears half way through the screen at
about 25 or 26 lines only?
Thanks in advance
please advise
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Distefano" 
To: "XyWrite List" 
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: Y2K bug in DATE?


>
> Reply to note from Patricia M Godfrey  Mon, 29
> Sep 2003 13:02:06 -0400
>
> Patricia:
>
> > Is this the Y2K bug that vers. 4.018 fixed?
>
> Yes.
>
> > If not, is there any way in XPL to get the equivalent of a
> > Basic or xBase right$ function, storing just the last two chars
> > of a 4-char year to a SG? I've looked over the recent
> > discussions of parse, but both they and the docs specify the
> > need for a divisor character, so to speak.
>
> This will become moot in your case once you get v4.018, but, as a
> matter of general interest, U2 includes LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER and
> SUBSTRing parsing routines analogous to the eponymous functions in
> Rexx. Input/Output is via S/G 50. For example, in pseudo-code:
>
> JM 2.rightQ2 ;*; S/G 50 gets "03"
> +",2">JM 2.rightQ2 ;*; S/G 50 gets "03"
>
> Right-parsing with the native XS command can be a little dicey, but
> it's doable. The idea is, before parsing, to append to the subject
> string an additional, unique string or character, i.e., one not
> already contained in the subject string, then use XS with the
> appropriate number of {27}X "any character" wildcards PLUS the add-
> on character to extract the right end of the string into a Save/Get.
> Lop off the add-on, and you're home. The trick is to choose an add-
> on character that doesn't occur elsewhere in the string. If you
> know that the subject string is alphanumeric, it's easy; just append
> a separator. For example:
>
> ;*; Input (all numbers)
> +"!">;*; Add on non-numeric character "!"
> ;*; Parsing separator (two wildcards plus "!")
> ;*; S/G 52 has "03!"
> >;*; Lop off "!"; S/G 50 has "03"
> ;*; Verify contents of S/G 50
> ;*; EXit
>
> Here's the same thing in real code; to see it work, DECODE it,
> DeFine it and issue RUNCODE:
>
> XPLeNCODE v2.0
> b-gin [UNTITLED]
> {<}SV50,2003{>}{<}SX50,{<}IS50{>}+"!"{>}{<}SV51,{027}X{027}X!
> {>}{<}XS50,51,51,52,53{>}{<}SX50,{<}VA@52!1{>}{>}{<}PRSave/Ge
> t 50 = @50{>}{<}EX{>}[cr|lf][cr|lf]
> -nd
> XPLeNCODE
>
> Right-side parsing gets knottier when the subject string contains
> 3-byte characters (for example, functions), so that "X number of
> characters" and "X number of bytes" are not the same thing. In that
> situation, U2's LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER and SUBSTR routines have the
> flexibility to return the desired number of either bytes or
> characters, as needed.  HELP RIGHT displays a detailed
> Help screen.
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx
> http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/
>