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> Subject: Help with string extraction plse (fwd)
 
> I need to rename a file in MPE to filemmdd where mm is taken from HPMONTH
> and dd is taken from HPDATE.
>
> I need to right justify and zerofill the value so I want dd=06 not 6.
 
Try this :-
 
setvar fname "file"+rht("0!hpmonth",2)+rht("0!hpdate",2)
 
or even (version 97)
 
setvar fname "file"+rht("0000![hpmonth*100+hpdate]",4)
 
or even (version 98)
 
you could set up this command file and call it TSTAMP :-
    PARM t=timestamp  f=timetemp
    echo > !f
    setvar !t '000![finfo("!f",-8)]'+rht('000000![finfo("!f",-24)]',6)
    return
and then use it as follows :-
:tstamp
:showvar timestamp
TIMESTAMP = 19951106171339
:setvar fname "file"+str(timestamp,5,4)
 
 
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