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<font size="4"><font face="monospace">If this is quick, my guess
this is also a screen.<br>
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Don't give users ideas. Give them 3 defined fields: yyyy,
mm, and dd<br>
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Then separate the fields with a character of the programmer's
choice.<br>
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They won't be able to touch that character, either dots, dashes,
or slashes, they are simply displayed between fields.<br>
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Then behind the scenes, concatenate the three fields together
into a new field to make a date.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/8/22 13:02, James B. Byrne wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">PH839
I have a request to allow users to input dates as in any of the following forms:
yyyymmdd
yyyy.mm.dd
yyyy-mm-dd
yyyy/mm/dd
To handle this I tried the following:
FIELD INPUT-DATE OF TRANSACTIONS
PROCEDURE INPUT INPUT-DATE
BEGIN
LET QKT-TEXT=TRUNCATE(LJ(FIELDTEXT))
IF MATCHPATTERN(QKT-TEXT,"####.##.##") OR &
MATCHPATTERN(QKT-TEXT,"####-##-##") OR &
MATCHPATTERN(QKT-TEXT,"####/##/##")
THEN LET FIELDTEXT = QKT-TEXT[1:4]+QKT-TEXT[6:2]+QKT-TEXT[9:2]
END
Which does not work. If yyyy.mm.dd is input then the error " This entry must
be a date." appears. I speculate that this means that the FIELDVALUE is not
being changed as a result of manipulating FIELDTEXT.
SO, is there any way to implement this feature and if so then what is it?
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Tracy Johnson
BT
NNNN</pre>
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