RXS_charToTimestamp
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Description
Use RXS_charToTimestamp to easily convert a timestamp coming from an XML document (i.e. string representation of a timestamp) to a valid IBM i/RPG timestamp format. This will save the headache of programming for all of the different timestamp formats out there and doing a bunch of sub-stringing and concatenation.
Prototype
D RXS_charToTimestamp... D pr z D pString 30a value D pFormat 30a value D pDft z value
Parameters
- pString
- Specify a variable name or character literal that came from the XML parsing process.
- pFormat
- Specify the format of the timestamp string so the converter knows where to pull each value. The idea is to combine the below keywords (i.e. yyyy, MM, dd, hh, mm, ss, SSSSSS) into a string that represents the location of where the corresponding value can be found in the string representation of the timestamp.
- yyyy = Year
- MM = Month
- dd = Day
- hh = Hour
- mm = Minute
- ss = Second
- SS = Millisecond
- pDft
- If the string timestamp doesn’t match the format specified then the process cannot complete successfully and this default field’s value will be returned.
Return value
None.
Notes / Examples
RXS_charToTimestamp( strTimestamp: 'yyyy-MM-dd-hh.mm.ss.SSSSSS': %timestamp());