IX-FUNCTIONS-RDEFMTDATE" class="id_link">#</a></dt><dd><p>
        Use a format mask to convert a character string to a value of type
        date.
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int rdefmtdate(date *d, char *fmt, char *str);
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        The function receives a pointer to the date value that should hold the
        result of the operation (<code class="literal">d</code>), the format mask to use for
        parsing the date (<code class="literal">fmt</code>) and the C char* string containing
        the te