Mike Aubury wrote:

> I'm trying to test a bug report for Aubit4GL - can someone with Informix 4GL
> try this code :
>
>
> main
> define xdate date
> let xdate="31/31/31"
> display xdate
> end main
>
>
> Does it error out - or just display xdate as being null (ie blank) and not
> say anything?

Using 4GL-RDS version 7.30.UC1, it displays as a blank. Or to be more
accurate, it displays spaces for each character of the DBDATE format. So
with DBDATE=DMY4/, it displays 10 spaces, and with DBDATE=DMY2/, it
displays 8 spaces. 4J's DVM version 3.53 does the same.

Using:

MAIN

DEFINE xdate DATE

LET xdate="31/31/31"
DISPLAY "'", xdate, "'"
DISPLAY "'123456789x"

END MAIN


Cheers,
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Mark.

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