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[REBOL] Re: Displaying AM / PM times

From: joel:neely:fedex at: 30-Aug-2001 17:45

Hi, John, john wrote:
> I have a REBOL file I am using that presents bus schedules in a format > readable for the blind. > The data is dumped into an ASCII array, I read it by line and would like to > modify the line to include AM or PM before REBOL places the elements into > the HTML table. > > I have sniped the code to reflect what is done with one single line.: > > This is what the line looks like and it is tab delimited: > > 7:14 7:17 7:23 7:26 7:32 7:40 7:43 7:47 7:54 8:03 8:08 8:16 8:26 > How can I change the data in d7 to read AM/PM before it goes to the > table, I need to retain the tabs? >
The key is to turn the tab-delimited line into a block of strings, each of which can be converted to a TIME! value for submission to the time formatting function. Using your definition of "nice time" formatting, I whomped up the following demo (pretending that D7 was read from a file) in a source file named timeform.r ... REBOL [] d7: {8:17^-10:26^-12:40^-14:47^-16:03} nicetime: func [time [time!] /local am] [ time/3: 0 am: pick [" AM" " PM"] time < 12:00 if time >= 12:00 [time: time - 12:00] if time/1 = 0 [time/1: 12] rejoin [time am] ] makerow: func [s [string!] /local row] [ row: copy {<tr bordercolor="lightblue" border="1" bgcolor="white">} foreach t parse s none [ append row rejoin [ "^/" <td width="6%" align="center"> nicetime to-time t </td> ] ] rejoin [row "^/" </tr>] ] makerow d7 ...which produces the following output...
>> print do %timeform.r
<tr bordercolor="lightblue" border="1" bgcolor="white"> <td width="6%" align="center">8:17 AM</td> <td width="6%" align="center">10:26 AM</td> <td width="6%" align="center">12:40 PM</td> <td width="6%" align="center">2:47 PM</td> <td width="6%" align="center">4:03 PM</td> </tr>
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