Re: Convert long number to string
Re: Convert long number to string
- Subject: Re: Convert long number to string
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 01:27:05 -0400
On Apr 18, 2004, at 12:43 AM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 4/17/04 8:13 PM, "Gnarlodious" <email@hidden> wrote:
Entity Graff spoke thus:
set realNumber to do shell script "echo `date +%s` - `date +%s` %
604800 | bc"
Basically it gets the date in seconds from the epoch twice and puts
the
values in an echo statement which passes a string to the shell tool
bc.
The tool bc, which is a calculation tool,
Great! Now I know what Martin was talking about when he mentioned
"bc".
I actually found it here:
(copy and paste URI)
<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.
Same here.
I used bc because it's a little bit more straightforward than dc. You
can use dc instead but it uses reverse polish notation and a few
related concepts. The command when written for dc would be:
echo `date +%s` `date +%s` 604800 % - p | dc
for comparison here is the line written for bc:
echo `date +%s` - `date +%s` % 604800 | bc
As you can see, the bc command is a bit easier to comprehend.
- Ken
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