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      .toDate()

      Method converts a string to date. After converting to date, the date methods are available.

      Description of the method

      Description:

      .toDate() method converts a string to date. After converting to date, the date methods are available.

      The following format is expected for the string to be able to convert it to date: YYYYMMDD e.g. 25st of January 2015 would be "20150125". If you want to convert e.g. integer field to a date you first need to convert the integer to string and after that convert it to date e.g. element.toString().toDate().
      Available for: string
      Parameters:  -
      Return type: date

      Example

      Context: HeaderType1
      OCL:
      self.InstrId.size() = 35 implies (
          let s1 : string = self.InstrId.substring(0,4)
          in
          let s2 : string = self.InstrId.substring(4,6)
          in
          let s3 : string = self.InstrId.substring(6,8)
          in
          let sAll : string = s1+"-"+s2+"-"+s3
          in (
              sAll.toDate().allowedDaysInFuture(2) and
              sAll.toDate().allowedDaysInPast(2)
              )
          )
      Description: The example rule converts <Id> element value to a date and checks that the date is within 2 days into future or past

       

      Assuming current date is 2018-05-22, the XML snippet below would pass this check.

      <InstrId>2018052312345678901BRRRR00000000001</InstrId>

      The other snippet below however would not pass this check.

      <InstrId>2017052312345678901BRRRR00000000001</InstrId>