On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:22:40 -0000, "red_october2009"
<kevin.wendy.morris@...> wrote:

> I used UDFs for years until FB2x came along. I view UDFs as a stop gap
> non-standard solution until a built-in standard solution can be
> implemented. I would much rather dump all my UDFs and use FB functions
> instead.

The format you specified was really specific to your problem, and IMHO not
generally usable, so in that case a UDF is the way to go.

Mark