Nested Functions

[Darren Reely]

Pickering, John (NORBORD) wrote:
> The formatnumber function is a Compaq version only nicety. It isn't in the
> 8.xx versions. But perhaps one of the benefits to the rest of us of
> "Compaqising" version 8 is that Cognos will need to add it to the "common
> code stream" 8.x0 version (in order to get Compaq users to accept it) and
> then we'll all have it!
> 
> It seems to me that adding new functions to PH must be one of the simplest
> kinds of enhancements. Since they're new there's no old syntax to break and
> no compatibility with old versions to test. Just do it!
> 
> And a formatdate function as suggested by Chris would remove so many lines
> of my code that I might be compelled to raise my dollars per line of code
> rates :-)
> 
> How many times have you coded something like the following? Sigh :-(
> 
> DEFINE D-RPT-TITLE CHAR*45 &
>   =    "Issues by Equipment from " &
>      + ASCII(D-FROM-DATE OF MMF195,8)[3:2] + "/" &
>      + ASCII(D-FROM-DATE OF MMF195,8)[5:2] + "/" &
>      + ASCII(D-FROM-DATE OF MMF195,8)[7:2] &
>      + " to " &
>      + ASCII(D-TO-DATE   OF MMF195,8)[3:2] + "/" &
>      + ASCII(D-TO-DATE   OF MMF195,8)[5:2] + "/" &
>      + ASCII(D-TO-DATE   OF MMF195,8)[7:2]

In the current code base I support:

           Occurances   Source    Total Source
Qdesign        23         17        445
Quiz          142         29        125

It occurs often in quiz because of headings we want full control over
that may not even contain a date at times.  Although I can't think
how often I've seen a user use that option. Our heading could be like:
	Date Range: 12/27/98 to 01/03/99  or   Date Range: ALL

A formatdate function would be a great addition to see.  As long as it
could handle all the current FORMATs allowed.

Darren
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