Re: Formating variable with caracter and date.

2008-12-12 Thread Dave B
Dolphin06 wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to give a variable a value which have a format like this one: > <3 letters>-- > should be yymmdd. Date of the day by default. > How would i do this, i know the date command is date +"%y-%m-%d", but i dont > know the syntax for mixing letters date a

Formating variable with caracter and date.

2008-12-12 Thread Dolphin06
nto one variable. Also i would like to give the user a chance to change this default value, by letting him enter one, so i would like to know how can i check if the entered value is in the correct format. Thank you for helping. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Formating-variab