> Hi, Alan.
>
> I added a time component, and got the similar error:
> illegal string conversion of \"31-MAY-2007
> 01:00:00.000\"
>
> At this point, can you (or anyone else for that
> matter) post a working example??
>
> Thanks.
> Kurt.
>

I don't have a working example - so sorry. I don't work in the API mush
either, apart from the replicator engine which doesn't use literals.

what dialect is your DB?
have you tried '1-MAY-2007 14:39:10'
instead of excaping the double quotes?
Alan

>
>
> --- Alan McDonald <alan@...> wrote:
>
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I need to pull two dates from a table and compare
> > > them to the current time. I keep getting an error
>
> > > that there is an illegal string conversion of
> > > \"31-MAY-2007\", which is the date in the
> > > TIMESTAMP field.
> >
> > it's illegal because there's no time component to
> > your string.
> > add a time component, cast it to timestamp, or use
> > DATESTAMP instead.
> > Alan
> >
> > >
> > > Below is a code fragment of what I'm attempting to
> > do...any advice
> > > would be appreciated....
> > >
> > > Kurt.
> > >
> > >
> > > // SET UP THE FIELDS RETURNED BY QUERY....
> > > SQLDA1->sqlvar[0].sqldata = (char *)
> > Trends.szMAC;
> > > SQLDA1->sqlvar[0].sqltype = SQL_TEXT;
> > > SQLDA1->sqlvar[0].sqllen = 32;
> > >
> > > SQLDA1->sqlvar[1].sqldata = (char*) &Start;
> > > SQLDA1->sqlvar[1].sqltype = SQL_TIMESTAMP;
> > > SQLDA1->sqlvar[1].sqllen =
> > sizeof(ISC_TIMESTAMP);
> > >
> > >
> > > SQLDA1->sqlvar[2].sqldata = (char*) &Stop;
> > > SQLDA1->sqlvar[2].sqltype = SQL_TIMESTAMP;
> > > SQLDA1->sqlvar[2].sqllen =
> > sizeof(ISC_TIMESTAMP);
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
> > > // THIS STATEMENT ALWAYS FAILS WITH A
> > CONVERSION ERROR...
> > > while( 0 == isc_dsql_fetch(STAT1, &STMT1, 1,
> > SQLDA1) )
> > > {
> > > // COPY THE RESULTS...
> > > memset( &Trends, 0, sizeof(Trends) );
> > >
> > > RightTrim( Trends.szMAC, 32 );
> > >
> > > // HERE'S WHERE I NEED TO CONVERT TO
> > STRUCT TM/TDATETIME...
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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