Re: Avoiding repetition
Re: Avoiding repetition
- Subject: Re: Avoiding repetition
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 13:33:07 +0100
David Andrews wrote on Fri, 16 Jul 2004 23:05:39 -0400:
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On Jul 16, 2004, at 7:17 AM, Nigel Smith wrote:
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> On 7/15/04 12:14 PM, "Bernard Azancot" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> till another basic newbie question:
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>> The following script has no problem. I just would like to know if it
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>> is
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>> possible to improve its "coding style" .
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> It might make things more obvious (especially in the Finder!) if your
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> backups went to folders called "Monday", Tuesday", etc, rather than
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> "A","B",...
As Bernard is presumably French - or at least francophone - he may not
care to call his folders "Monday", Tuesday", etc. I've got it in my head
that weekdays coerce to English strings whatever the system language.
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> Then you could (pseudocode):
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> action to folder ("path:to:parent:" & myDay)
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> No loop required.
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Oops, I forgot the current date...
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I like this idea, now if myDay is always current date, we have:
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action to folder ("path:to:parent:" & word 1 of ((current date) as
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string))
This is more likely to produce a weekday name in your own language,
provided that weekdays are enabled in your Date preferences.
NG
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