I certainly learned something, but put me down for one who agrees with
Jeph. You certainly should be able to get this simple date information
without having to know or spend the time finding out the details of
how to convert c(current_date).
Fred
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:18 PM, David Radwin <radwin@berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> No need to apologize. No one is ever actually compelled to read or respond to postings, even if they feel otherwise.
>
> And I am probably not the only one who learned something from this exchange--namely that you don't need single quotation marks around c(current_date). More generally, it reminded me that I have a lot to learn about macros.
>
> David
>
> At 3:57 PM -0400 8/7/08, Jeph Herrin wrote:
>>
>> apologies to anyone who felt compelled to read or
>> respond to what seemed to them a trivial post.
>
>
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