[REBOL] Re: YYYYMMDD date format
From: mat:eurogamer at: 14-Nov-2000 14:31
Heya johnkenyon,
juic> Hi,
juic> now/month returns 1 not 01 for month in Jan so ..
juic> nowdate: rejoin [ now/year either now/month < 10 [ "0" ] [ "" ] now/month
juic> now/day ]
Mmmm, that's interesting. I bet you could use that to make a VASTLY
more elegant solution to my rather disgusting hack to generate some
serial numbers with padded zeros.
How could you extend that for a 3 digit issue?
IE
0-9
10-99
100-999
I'd show you how I did it but it's really quite embarrassing ;)
The only thing that really annoys me in rebol is simple high level
string handling really. The Amigas Arexx had such easy ways to do this
sort of thing - in fact so did BASIC even.
Tell you something else I'd give my left one for, a straight port of
the Arexx parse command. I don't think I'll *ever* understand Rebols
:(
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