Stephen,
Part of your question has already been answered neatly, so I'll
add a bit about naming files to include the date.
We have a script which sets today's date into the variables:
today_s, today_l, today_is, today_il, today_us, today_ul,
with the corresponding date formats :
ddmmyy, ddmmyyyy, yymmdd, yyyymmdd, mmddyy & mmddyyyy.
Today's date (28th Feb 1997) produces:
280297, 28021997, 970228, 19970228, 022897, 02281997.
This script used to be run whenever it was required, but I now run it as
part of the logon process for sessions & jobs and the variables are
available therefore at any time.
To construct a filename "A970228.pub" I do:
setvar file_name "A!today_is.pub"
Simple!
The script SETTODAY.CMD is:
--------------------------- cut here --------------------------------
option nolist
setvar today_s rht("0"+ltrim("!hpdate"),2) + "/" &
+ rht("0"+ltrim("!hpmonth"),2) + "/" &
+ rht("0"+ltrim("!hpyear"),2)
setvar today_l rht("0"+ltrim("!hpdate"),2) + "/" &
+ rht("0"+ltrim("!hpmonth"),2) + "/" &
+ "19" + rht("0"+ltrim("!hpyear"),2)
setvar today_is rht("0"+ltrim("!hpyear"),2) &
+ rht("0"+ltrim("!hpmonth"),2) &
+ rht("0"+ltrim("!hpdate"),2)
setvar today_il "19" + rht("0"+ltrim("!hpyear"),2) &
+ rht("0"+ltrim("!hpmonth"),2) &
+ rht("0"+ltrim("!hpdate"),2)
setvar today_us rht("0"+ltrim("!hpmonth"),2) + "/" &
+ rht("0"+ltrim("!hpdate"),2) + "/" &
+ rht("0"+ltrim("!hpyear"),2)
setvar today_ul rht("0"+ltrim("!hpmonth"),2) + "/" &
+ rht("0"+ltrim("!hpdate"),2) + "/" &
+ "19" + rht("0"+ltrim("!hpyear"),2)
Greg Chaplin
UniSuper
Level 28, 367 Collins St, Email: [log in to unmask]
Melbourne 3000, Phone: +61 3 9648 4145
Australia. Fax: +61 3 9648 4141
(Any opinions expressed here are not necessarily my employer's)
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