Working with assigned dates.

[Ken Boettger <BoettgeK@CWU.EDU>]

Working with dates:

This is confusing. The following yields "ONE DATE IS GREATER".  I am getting a 
literal string comparison rather than a date comparison. Can someone explain 
why and how I can correct the code to perform a date comparison?

            LET $ONE_DT = STRTODATE('01-JAN-2002')
            LET $TWO_DT = STRTODATE('01-FEB-2002')
            IF $ONE_DT > $TWO_DT
               SHOW 'ONE DATE IS GREATER'
            ELSE
               SHOW 'TWO DATE IS GREATER'
            END-IF

-Ken


Ken Boettger
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