That answered my question. Thanks to Joseph for a more compact way of doing it,
and to Ichiro for an explanation of where I was going wrong.
--John-Paul Ferguson
Quoting Ichiro Fujikake <[email protected]>:
> Hi
>
> Another way is to use
> local time =c(current_time)
> or
> local time `c(current_time)'
> in place of
> local time c(current_time)
>
> I might be incorrect, but my guess here is that when macro time is called at
> subinstr, it is treated as string, so that c() isn't evaluated. It should
> have evaluated before it was placed in macro time, and that's = or `' does.
> Joseph Conveney's solution also uses `c()' for the same reason.
>
> Ichiro
>
>
> On 05.3.25 14:38, "Joseph Coveney" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > John-Paul Ferguson wrote (excerpted):
> >
> > My question therefore is this: how can I retrieve the current date or time
> > and hold it as a genuine string, such that I can manipulate it?
> >
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Something like the following should work.
> >
> > Joseph Coveney
> >
> >
> > program autolog
> > local now = subinstr("`c(current_time)'", ":", "", .)
> > local today = string(date("`c(current_date)'", "dmy"), "%dCYND")
> > local timestamp `today'T`now'
> > // capture log close
> > log using `timestamp'.log, replace
> > end
> >
> >
> > . autolog
> > (note: file A:\20050325T143342.log not found)
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----------------------
> > log: A:\20050325T143342.log
> > log type: text
> > opened on: 25 Mar 2005, 14:33:43
> >
> > . log close
> > log: A:\20050325T143342.log
> > log type: text
> > closed on: 25 Mar 2005, 14:33:46
> >
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> >
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