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Re: Current-Date Function
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"Schick, John" <[log in to unmask]>
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Schick, John
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Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:27:27 -0400
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Paul Christidis asks in part about FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE:

<snip>
>My test seem to indicate that the function 'limits' the size of the
returned string to the size of the receiving field.
>Does this concur with the findings of anyone else on this list?
</snip>

Yes, this concurs with my findings.  FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE fills in its
own temporary 21-byte area.  Then the MOVE statement that assigns the
function value to your variable in working-storage works just like any
other Cobol MOVE statement.  If the receiving field is smaller than 21
bytes the excess is truncated.

John Schick
Sr. Technical Development Advisor
HBOC/Amisys

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