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Re: st: removing space from $_DATE


From   "Raphael Fraser" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: removing space from $_DATE
Date   Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:03:26 -0500

I was really hoping there were different date format macros for the
"current date" that I did not know exist. But the suggestions provided
are helpful.

Thanks

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some small confusion here. The global macro in question is called S_DATE
> and thus is referenced by $S_DATE: in fact it is usually better quoted
> as "$S_DATE" . It is an old-style equivalent of c(current_date).
>
> The strict answer to Raphael's question is that you can re-define this
> macro to be  without spaces, but it is better to display a copy that
> does not contain the spaces.
>
> As Svend's suggestion implies, this can be done via
>
> subinstr("$S_DATE", " ", "", .)
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Svend Juul
>
> Raphael wrote:
>
> The macro $_DATE displays current as 20 Jun 2008. I am looking for a
> simply way to remove the spaces.
> That is, 20Jun2008.
>
> =====================================================================
>
> I did not succeed with $_DATE, but with c(current_date) it is:
>
>    . local z = subinstr(c(current_date) , " " , "" , .)
>    . display "`z'"
>    20Jun2008
>
>
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