Re: Month as Integer
Re: Month as Integer
- Subject: Re: Month as Integer
- From: Jed Verity <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:22:04 -0800
"month of (current date) as integer" errors for me on 9.0.4 (and I have a
truckload of osaxen).
Jed
My favorite person, Paul Berkowitz, wrote this:
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On 11/29/00 10:26 AM, "Carl West" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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>> I know that
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>> month of (current date) as string
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>> -- "November"
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>> came in with OS 8.6 or 9.0 (which?).
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>> I find that I can also get
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>> month of (current date) as integer
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>> -- 11
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>> Is this a vanilla coercion with 8.6 or 9.0 as well, or is some osax helping
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>> me out here, does anyone know?
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> Doesn't work for me on OS 9.0.4.
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> I have only the standard AppleScript stuff installed.
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Very interesting. I just got a private reply from someone who said that it
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doesn't work with 8.6 but it DOES work with OS 9 and no 3rd-party osaxen
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installed.
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Is it possible, Carl, that you may have been using 'display dialog' to try
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to show the result? THAT won't work unless you also put
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(month as integer) as string
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or
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"" & (month as integer)
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because display dialog needs a string.
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Can you please let me know? This is very odd.
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Jed Verity