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Re: Number of days left in the month
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Re: Number of days left in the month


  • Subject: Re: Number of days left in the month
  • From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:21:10 -0500

> Subject: Re: Number of days left in the month
> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:46:13 +0000
> From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>

>> Emmanuel also wrote on Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:56:51 +0100:
>>> tell theDate to 32 - (((date ("1 " & its month & " " & its year)) +
>>> 31 * days)'s day) returning x

>> Or, about twice as fast (on my machines):
>> tell (date (theDate's date string)) to 32 - ((it + (32 - (its day)) *
>> days)'s day) returning x

> Emmanuel will immediately have spotted (as will Arthur, has, etc.) that
> the string's a complete waste of time in my version, so:
>
> tell theDate to 32 - ((it + (32 - (its day)) * days)'s day) returning x
>
> ... which is very much faster still. :-)

Alright, the pressure is on: One of you two should be able to get this
down to exactly 7 characters of source code...

;-)

{ Arthur J. Knapp, of <http://www.STELLARViSIONs.com>
a r t h u r @ s t e l l a r v i s i o n s . c o m
}
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