FairCom DB API for C

ctdbStringToDate

Convert a date in string format to CTDATE packed format.

Declaration

CTDBRET ctdbStringToDate(pTEXT pStr, CTDATE_TYPE DateType,

pCTDATE pDate)

Description

ctdbStringToDate() converts a date in string format to CTDATE packed format. Use ctdbDateToString() to convert a packed CTDATE into a string.

pStr [in] the pointer to the string.
DateType [in] the date type. Valid types are listed in FairCom DB API Data Types.
pDate [out] the pointer to date that will result from the conversion.

Returns

ctdbStringToDate() returns CTDBRET_OK on success, or FairCom DB API C error on failure.

The possible errors associated with ctdbStringToDate() are:

CTDBRET_NULARG (4007): Null argument not valid in pStr
CTDBRET_NOMEMORY (4001): Not enough memory
CTDBRET_INVFORMAT (4028): Invalid format in DateType
CTDBRET_INVDATE (4029): Invalid packed CTDATE