Kbase P121736: Incorect format when displaying character value as date
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
22/01/2007 |
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Status: Unverified
FACT(s) (Environment):
OpenEdge 10.x
SYMPTOM(s):
Incorrect format when displaying character value as date
Character separators are not displayed
Using BUFFER-FIELD and BUFFER-VALUE to display the value
Working fine in 9.1x
CHANGE:
Upgrade to OpenEdge 10.x
CAUSE:
Before OpenEdge 10.x, there was not enough room to store the format of variables in the rcode, so for character variables, the default "X(8)" format was always applied when setting the BUFFER-VALUE. The format info was added into the r-code due to the 32-bit offsets expansion of the r-code in OpenEdge 10
FIX:
Format the character value to a date format before displaying it.
Example: DISPLAY STRING( <buffer-field-hanle>:buffer-value, "99/99/9999" ) FORMAT "x(10)".