Re: Quickie Question
Re: Quickie Question
- Subject: Re: Quickie Question
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 18:36:11 +0100
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At 02:17 -0800 UTC, on 30-03-2002, Chuck Ross wrote:
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> Now if only someone would come up with a vanilla way to obtain
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> the month as an integer, right Emmanuel? ;-)
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I saw something like this once. I can't be sure, but I think it was
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done by Matt Petrowski as a FileMaker Pro calc, but I could be wrong. I
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just remembered the basic technique and translated it to AppleScript.
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If by "vanilla" you mean we can use the standard scripting additions,
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then this should work.
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set theDate to current date
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set monthNum to ((((offset of ((characters 1 thru 3 of ((month of
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theDate) as string))
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as string) in "JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec") - 1) / 3) +
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1) as integer
Well, that depends on your definition of "work" ;) It will fail on non
english systems. The following works as in "works":
- From the <
news:alt.comp.lang.applescript> FAQ at
<
http://homepage.mac.com/dlivesay/aclafaq.html>:
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3.3. How can I get the month of a date as a number?
AppleScript's date object gives you the month as a string only (January,
February etc.). You can either now check for the string value of the month
and get the appropriate number through a series of 12 "if...then" loops, or
you can use the so-called French Vanilla algorithm:
set theDate to the current date --or any other date
copy theDate to b
set the month of b to January
set monthNum to (1 + (theDate - b + 1314864) div 2629728)
The variable monthNum will return an integer representing the number of the
month (1 through 12).
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Note the term "french vanilla". It seems likely it refers to Emmanuel ;)
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Sander Tekelenburg, <
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