Re: Check date value in 4gl

--- "Mark D. Stock" <mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk> > wrote: >Carlos Benjamin wrote: >> >> --- Watson Paul <Paul.Watson@fefc.ac.uk> >> > wrote: >> >> 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 :-) >> >> Yes you can. But it won't respond when you call until it gets used to the new name.... > >You can't CALL a database. You have to CONNECT to it. :-) Dang! So that's my problem. And here I was spending a fortune on treats trying to bribe the thing! == Maintainer of the procrastinator's FAQ. Well, maybe tomorrow I will be. _____________________________________________________________ Want a new web-based email account ? ---> http://www.firstlinux.net