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Ha! Yes I did read your post carefully, but you're right, what I
didn't read carefully is that doc you pointed to. The reason is that
I had already carefully read DateNum documentation that I have
installed (with the latest beta), and it does not have that last
crucial "Separator" parameter that I was desparately looking for. :-)
> Third thing: all floating point arithmetic is IEEE single precision
32 bit
> floating point that has 7 (seven) significant digits.
Gotcha!
Jitu
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <amibroker@xxxx>
wrote:
> Read carefully.
>
> I wrote:
> Use ******formatDateTime******* in conjunction with WriteVal
> http://www.amibroker.com/guide/afl/afl_view.php?name=WRITEVAL
>
> Quote
>
> "Display date/time according to regional settings
>
> WriteVal( DateTime(), formatDateTime );
>
> "
>
>
>
> Also If you don't want to display thousand separator simply
>
> specify Separator = False as below
>
>
> WriteVal( DateNum(), 1.0, False );
>
>
>
> Third thing: all floating point arithmetic is IEEE single precision
32 bit
>
> floating point that has 7 (seven) significant digits.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jtelang" <jtelang@xxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 2:18 AM
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Converting DateNum() to a string...
>
>
> > Tomasz,
> >
> > I did try WriteVal. The problem I ran into was that integer value
> > such as 20021010 came back with commas, like 200,210,10 which I
could
> > not get rid of. And I'm quite puzzled that passing the number
> > returned by DateNum didn't work for me in the way I tried it (as
> > mentioned in my original post). Do you have any idea if its a bug
or
> > if its something that I did wrong?
> >
> > Andrew, thanks for your suggestion. I'll try it. I have it now
> > working as follows (which gives me a 8 digit number, with leading
0's
> > when warranted). Couldn't think of any other way to get it to
work.
> > By leading 0's, I mean that I want the string to be 20020310 when
the
> > date is 10/3/2002, instead of 2002310.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > EnableScript("vbscript");
> >
> > gYstr = "" + Year();
> > gMstr = "" + Month();
> > gDstr = "" + Day();
> > <%
> > Dim mstr
> > Dim dstr
> > mstr = AFL("gMstr")
> > if( Len(mstr) < 2 ) then mstr = "0" + mstr
> > dstr = AFL("gDstr")
> > if( Len(dstr) < 2 ) then dstr = "0" + dstr
> > AFL("gMstr") = mstr
> > AFL("gDstr") = dstr
> > %>
> > gDateNumStr = gYstr + gMstr + gDstr;
> >
> > -----------------
> >
> > Jitu
> >
> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko"
<amibroker@xxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Use formatDateTime in conjunction with WriteVal
> > > http://www.amibroker.com/guide/afl/afl_view.php?name=WRITEVAL
> > >
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Tomasz Janeczko
> > > amibroker.com
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "jtelang" <jtelang@xxxx>
> > > To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:54 PM
> > > Subject: [amibroker] Converting DateNum() to a string...
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm trying to use the number returned by DateNum() in a
string
> > > > that'll designate a unique filename for each day, and for
some
> > reason
> > > > am unable to use the value returned. Here's a simplified
example,
> > > > when trying to set it as a string to title. Does anyone know
why
> > this
> > > > wouldn't work? I get a syntax error on this -
> > > >
> > > > EnableScript("vbscript");
> > > > dn = DateNum();
> > > > <%
> > > > AFL("Title") = CStr(AFL("dn"))
> > > > %>
> > > >
> > > > Following does work -
> > > >
> > > > EnableScript("vbscript");
> > > > dn = 9999999;
> > > > <%
> > > > AFL("Title") = CStr(AFL("dn"))
> > > > %>
> > > >
> > > > What's the difference in assigning a constant vs a value
returned
> > by
> > > > DateNum to variable dn? FWIW, I tried ABTool's xxToString()
> > function
> > > > as well. Similar problem...
> > > >
> > > > TIA,
> > > >
> > > > Jitu
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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