Re: Convert long number to string
Re: Convert long number to string
- Subject: Re: Convert long number to string
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 21:43:17 -0700
On 4/17/04 8:13 PM, "Gnarlodious" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Entity Graff spoke thus:
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> set realNumber to do shell script "echo `date +%s` - `date +%s` %
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> 604800 | bc"
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> Basically it gets the date in seconds from the epoch twice and puts the
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> values in an echo statement which passes a string to the shell tool bc.
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> The tool bc, which is a calculation tool,
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Great! Now I know what Martin was talking about when he mentioned "bc".
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I actually found it here:
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(copy and paste URI)
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<file://localhost/127.0.0.1/Library/Documentation/Commands/dc/dc_toc.html>
<file:///Library/Documentation/Commands/dc/dc_toc.html>
is what works in my case. But that's dc, not bc.
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Paul Berkowitz
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