DATE STOD()

PURPOSE

Return a character string as a date

SYNONYM

api_date_stod()

SYNOPSIS

#include "dbapi.h"
 
unsigned long	DATE_STOD(string)
 
<input parameters>
char	string;		/* Address of a buffer containing character string	*/
 
<output parameters>
none

DESCRIPTION

The DATE_STOD() function will return will return the specified string in the format "YYYYMMDD" as an unsigned long, the Recital date format. This function can be used to convert data values for updating Recital date memory variables.

EXAMPLE

The following example converts today's date specified in the character pointer date to an unsigned long.

#include "dbapi.h"
 
dbapi_date_stod()
{
    int		month;
    unsigned long	date;
 
    if (_parinfo(1) != API_DTYPE) {
       _retc("");
    }
 
    date = DATE_STOD(_pards(1) );
    day = DATE_DAY( date );
 
    if ( month ==  12) {
       /* commands	*/
    }
 
}

SEE ALSO

_parc(), _parclen(), _parcsiz(), _parinfo(), _retc(), _retclen(), ISCHAR(), CHAR_ALLTRIM(), CHAR_LOWER(), CHAR_LPAD(), CHAR_LTRIM(), CHAR_RPAD(), CHAR_RTRIM(), CHAR_STR(), CHAR_UPPER(), DATE_AMPM(), DATE_CDOW(), DATE_CMONTH(), DATE_CTOD(), DATE_DATE(), DATE_DAY(), DATE_DOW(), DATE_DTOC(), DATE_DTOS(), DATE_TIME(), DATE_YEAR()