doedit

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

You can always just do

date_field=date_field+"0"
filePro will convert any - to / when you do this
I do this on several input processing fields in @wlf so if any data
inputter decides to be silly and put - it converts them to / when they
leave the field

hope that helps


On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 2:58 PM Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> In a date field (8,mdy/) a few entries use a - rather than a slash i.e.
> 04-18-18 rather then 04/18/18.  As filePro excepts the dash- in the date
> field, will doedit change the - to a slash /?
>
> If so, how would one write the program line?  The date field is field 8 in
> the file.  As there are only a few (14) out of 839 records, I could either
> write a process to update just those records or add the doedit to a lookup
> which uses this field.
> Lookup filed is kah(8) which sets dummy field ds. Ds=kah(8).
>
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