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Re: cobol
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Walter Murray <[log in to unmask]>
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Walter Murray <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:47:47 -0500
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 "Mike Hornsby" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> >   Does there is some function in the cobol which can be used to
increment
> > the date one by one.
>
> In MPE/iX version 6.0 HP added the HPDATEOFFSET, as well as some other
very
> useful
> date related intrinsics:

If you are using HP COBOL, I strongly encourage you to use the standard
COBOL functions DATE-OF-INTEGER and INTEGER-OF-DATE.

They are portable, and they are bug-free.

Walter

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