One man's "fussy" is another man's "rigorous" or "consistent" ... :-)
It was designed that way because the default output format returns the month in
mixed case. It was felt that reciprocality demanded that the Date() BIF accept a
date in the same form that it returned it, as long as it was unambiguous or, in
the case of 2-digit years, windowable. Once you open the door to variants,
things get messy, e.g. should "12Oct2008" be allowed?
Remember, Rexx is case-sensitive when it regards data; it is case-insensitive
only when it comes to how the Rexx code itself is written.
Would you expect that "WordPos('OCT','Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec')" would return a
"4" or a "0"?
-Chip Davis-
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On 11/19/08 00:33 Mark Wheeler said:
The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]> wrote on 11/18/2008
03:33:48 PM:
I am trying to run the following code:
<code>
/* */
date1='12 OCT 2008'
date1='12 Oct 2008'
date2='13 OCT 2008'
date2='13 Oct 2008'
Fussy, no?
