Re: How to accept date in particular format

On 31 Oct 2005 04:14:25 -0800, "PradeepR" <pradeep.ravle@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am looking for accepting a date in format mm/dd/yyyy. The initial
>screen should show current date in this format, for eg.
>10/31/2005.
>I am working on ACU COBOL.
>The date should be accepted at a particular line and column, say line
>4. I have to default it with current date
>and allow the user to edit.
>
>I have tried
>working-storage section.
>01 in-date pic x(10) value " / / ".
>
>procedure division.
>move "10/31/2005" to in-date.
>accept in-date line 4 prompt.
A common way, and one that prevents all possible problems with change
in locales/countries, is to have 3 fields, properly identified as day,
month and year.

Apart from that you need to perform validation within your code to
verify that your users have entered the correct information.


>
>The problem with above is that neither the date gets defaulted, nor
>does it force the user to enter it in proper format. Excuse me if this
>is a newbie question. Any help is appreciated.
>Thanks for your attention.
>
>PradeepR


Frederico Fonseca
ema il: frederico_fonseca at syssoft-int.com
.

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