Re: text manipulation
Re: text manipulation
- Subject: Re: text manipulation
- From: Jolly Roger <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 15:09:37 -0500
On 6/5/2001 12:58 PM, "Jolly Roger" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 6/5/2001 11:47 AM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I have a time string as follows "10:56 am". I have been trying to figure out
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> a
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> way to change "am" to "a.m." or to "a.m", with no luck : ). Anybody have a
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> clue? Thanks.
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Well, you could always do something like this:
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-- begin script
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set timeStr to time string of (current date) as text
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set timeStr to ((characters 1 thru ((the length of timeStr) - 1) of timeStr)
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& "." & (character -1 of timeStr) & ".") as text
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-- end script
Or better yet:
-- begin script
set timeStr to time string of (current date) as text
set timeStr to (timeStr's characters 1 thru -2 & "." & timeStr's character
-1 & ".") as text
-- end script
JR