Data conversion error on screen.

[Chris Sharman]

>CREATE-DATE of OD-RECORD is defined as "packed *9".
>TEMPORARY T-HOLD-CREATE-CATE is defined as a DATE field.
>TEMPORARY T-CREATE-DATE DATE
>FIELD T-CREATE-DATE NOID FORMAT DDMMYY SEPARATOR "/" DISPLAY NOLABEL
>LET T-HOLD-CREATE-DATE = CREATE-DATE OF OD-RECORD
>This line seems to generate a "data conversion error" which appears
>as an error message when the screen is displayed.  Ie moving from a
>Packed field to a date field.  In debugger mode, values move okay,
>but the screen display has the error.
>LET T-CREATE-DATE = T-HOLD-CREATE-DATE
>DISPLAY T-CREATE-DATE
>Error message appears on screen...

Error messages typically only show when Quick next prompts.
Data conversion errors can be hard to run down.
I'd look at the actual values of the data, and whether your dates include
centuries or not.
Use:
 info ="create-date="+ascii(create-date of od-record) now response
 info ="t-hold-create-date="+ascii(t-hold-create-date) now response
 info ="t-create-date="+ascii(t-create-date) now response
to nail down what's actually going on.

Chris



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