Hello Nick,
ND = Nick Danger
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 at 21:01:57 GMT -0600 (which was 7:01 PM where
I live) witnesses say Nick Danger typed:
ND> I'll be waiting, and thanks for the explanation - I did find it
ND> enlightening even though I'm not sure I followed the entire
ND> "lesson".
I'm glad it was helpful. This is getting ugly, but this works pretty
well. Here is the full regexp in all it's gory detail:
<one line>
%SETPATTREGEXP="[/-](\d{4})$"%REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%DATESHORT"%SUBPATT="1"%SETPATTREGEXP="(\d{2})$"%REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%SETPATTREGEXP=""^(\d*)[/-]""%REGEXPBLINDMATCH=""%DATESHORT""0%SUBPATT=""1"""%SUBPATT="1"%SETPATTREGEXP="(\d{2})$"%REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%SETPATTREGEXP=""[/-](\d*)[/-]""%REGEXPBLINDMATCH=""%DATESHORT""0%SUBPATT=""1"""%SUBPATT="1"
</one line>
This assumes the date format is MM/DD/YYYY
The output is: 20010113
Now this huge regexp is really 3 separate regexps, each of those are
nested regexps. Ok, so what does this mean? I extract the year in
one regexp, the month in another, and the day in the final one. Insert
the following code block into a template:
--- Begin code block ---
%DATESHORT
Year: %SETPATTREGEXP="[/-](\d{4})$"%REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%DATESHORT"%SUBPATT="1"
Month:
%SETPATTREGEXP="(\d{2})$"%REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%SETPATTREGEXP=""^(\d*)[/-]""%REGEXPBLINDMATCH=""%DATESHORT""0%SUBPATT=""1"""%SUBPATT="1"
Day:
%SETPATTREGEXP="(\d{2})$"%REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%SETPATTREGEXP=""[/-](\d*)[/-]""%REGEXPBLINDMATCH=""%DATESHORT""0%SUBPATT=""1"""%SUBPATT="1"
--- End code block ---
This block outputs:
--- Begin Output ---
1/13/2001
Year: 2001
Month: 01
Day: 13
--- End Output ---
Of course if your date format is DD/MM/YYYY, you can paste these
regexps in the proper order to get the desired result. The only real
restriction is that the year is in 4 digit format at the end of the
date. Try it for different dates and see what happens.
--
Thanks for writing,
Januk Aggarwal
Using The Bat! 1.49
under Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A
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