strip year out of TdateValue

[HengeDK]

Hi

I have a tdateValue like "10/9/12"

how can I strip out the year

so I get "10/9"

Thanks

[Mark]

Hi too,

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set the itemDel to slash
delete item 3 of tdateValue

Kind regards,

Mark

[HengeDK]

thanks a lot !

[gpb01]

Or also ...

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put char 1 to 4 of tdateValue into tdateValue

Guglielmo

[Mark]

Hi Guglielmo,

That may not work. What if the month >= 10 o the day < 10?

Mark

[gpb01]

Hi Guglielmo,

That may not work. What if the month >= 10 o the day < 10?

Mark

Correct ...
... this is why I still format all the date field to MM/DD/YYYY with a fixed number of chars (... using the leading zeros)

Guglielmo

[dunbarx]

Correct ...
... this is why I still format all the date field to MM/DD/YYYY with a fixed number of chars (... using the leading zeros)

Fair enough, but then you would need to always get char 1 to 5 (not 1 to 4).

See what I mean? It is just a little dicey to write code that depends on an arbitrary format. But as long as you appreciate that setting the itemDel to "/" is more robust, in that it need not examine the length of the date string, go ahead. I have done worse.

Craig Newman

[gpb01]

Correct ...
... this is why I still format all the date field to MM/DD/YYYY with a fixed number of chars (... using the leading zeros)

Fair enough, but then you would need to always get char 1 to 5 (not 1 to 4).

See what I mean? It is just a little dicey to write code that depends on an arbitrary format. But as long as you appreciate that setting the itemDel to "/" is more robust, in that it need not examine the length of the date string, go ahead. I have done worse.

Craig Newman

Hi Craig,
... the suggestion was only to show another possible LiveCode syntax to a new LiveCoder (... I suppose ... we are in : "Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners" area).

Guglielmo