RE: Check date value in 4gl

> Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > > From: "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> > > >From: steveFarris <nlymbo@mindspring.com> > > >>How can i check the date value to make sure the user > entered something > > >>into a form. For instance, the following does not work... > > >> > > >>input by name d1 > > >>after field d1 > > >> if (length(d1) == 0) then > > > > What the heck is (length(d1) == 0) anyway? This isn't a C > compiler, you > > know! > > > > <Drum roll, please, maestro!> > > > > RTFM!! > > > > (How was that, Jonathan? :0) > > Very good. Now go and do as you advised Steve, and read > the manual (version 7.3 edition, please!). Then report > the omission of the '==' operator to the doc@informix.com > alias, as documented in TFM you're going to R. :-) > ROFL:-)))) BTW can you rename a database :-) Paul Watson # WF Software Ltd # Please don't Tel: +44 1436 674729 # confuse me with Fax: +44 1436 678693 # someone who cares www.wfsoftware.com # ********************************************************************** The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user(S) of the mail address(es) to which it was sent and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of it, or any part of it, in any form whatsoever, and any actions taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. **********************************************************************