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- OUTEND |SAMPLE DATE FORMATTING, USING TODAY'S DATE AND JULY 3 1998
- OUTEND |----------------------------------------------------------
-
- SET year = "1998"
- SET month = "7"
- SET day = "3"
- ;
- ; In the first example, we see that the date format can be omitted, or
- ; can be set to null. Either method invokes the use of the default date
- ; format string, obtained from the POMDATE.CFG file.
- ;
- SET format = ""
- TODAY x
- DATE y year month day ""
- OUTEND |
- OUTEND |Date Format String: Default date format
- OUTEND | Today's Date: {x}
- OUTEND | July 3 1998: {y}
-
- SET format = "?n-?d-?y"
- TODAY x format
- DATE y year month day format
- OUTEND |
- OUTEND |Date Format String: "{format}"
- OUTEND | Today's Date: {x}
- OUTEND | July 3 1998: {y}
-
- SET format = "d.M.Y"
- TODAY x format
- DATE y year month day format
- OUTEND |
- OUTEND |Date Format String: "{format}"
- OUTEND | Today's Date: {x}
- OUTEND | July 3 1998: {y}
-
- SET format = "t d 'y"
- TODAY x format
- DATE y year month day format
- OUTEND |
- OUTEND |Date Format String: "{format}"
- OUTEND | Today's Date: {x}
- OUTEND | July 3 1998: {y}
-
- SET format = "(m ?d Y)"
- TODAY x format
- DATE y year month day format
- OUTEND |
- OUTEND |Date Format String: "{format}"
- OUTEND | Today's Date: {x}
- OUTEND | July 3 1998: {y}
-
- SET format = "M/?d/Y"
- TODAY x format
- DATE y year month day format
- OUTEND |
- OUTEND |Date Format String: "{format}"
- OUTEND | Today's Date: {x}
- OUTEND | July 3 1998: {y}
- ;
- ; Since we only want this POM file to be run once (i.e. on a single input
- ; line), we do a NEXTFILE to stop processing the input file. We could
- ; have used HALT, but that would generate a "Halt Message" display,
- ; which we don't need.
- ;
- NEXTFILE
-