Format Question

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Doug Luurs (Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:35:01 -0400):

> Is there a way to change a GLOBAL format (In this case the MDY/ MDYY/
> formats) to allow only a " / ".

Those are SYSTEM edits, not GLOBAL edits.  System edits are built
in to filePro and cannot be changed.

> Right now, I have a few people that have a bad habit of using " . " in
> the place of " / ", and it messes up a few things on occasions.

How, exactly, does it "mess up" things?

However, if you need to force a "/" separator, you can use @WLF on
the date field and add zero to the date, causing filePro to put
slashes in for you.  For example:

    @wlf5  If: 5 ne ""
         Then: 5 = 5 + "0" ; display
           If:
         Then: end

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