Hello! I'm writing an AppleScript to get time values out of text documents in BBEdit. It takes a list of time ranges, totals each line in decimal hours, then adds a grand total.
My times are input in ranges like: 09:30-09:45 11:30-12:00 13:00-14:45 15:15-17:15 And what I want to get out is: 09:30-09:45 0.25 11:30-12:00 0.50 13:00-14:45 1.75 15:15-17:15 2.00 4.50 The script converts the hours and minutes to a single seconds value, then does the subtraction to get the amount of time indicated by the range. I get these times to a decimal hours result by dividing by 3600. An example looks like this: set TimeTotalLineCurrent to (TicketTextTimeLineStop - TicketTextTimeLineStart) / 3600 I always want the number of hours to have two decimal places, even with trailing zero(s), but when I add the totals to the lines I get: 09:30-09:45 0.25 11:30-12:00 0.5 13:00-14:45 1.75 15:15-17:15 2.0 4.5 So I don't get the zero after 0.5 or 2.0, or the grand total 4.5 The way the script turns: this: 09:30-09:45 into this: 09:30-09:45 0.25 is with ``` # Add total time to end of current line in decimal hours set BBLineNumber to startLine of selection select insertion point after last character of line BBLineNumber of vDocument set selection to " " & TimeTotalLineCurrent as text ``` Is there a way to make the text of TimeTotalLineCurrent to always have two decimals? I'm curious as to why in my sample above the 2.0 gets its zero (but only one), but the 0.5 does not get a trailing zero. I would kind of expect it to just print "2". I'm also wondering why the 0.25 is getting its leading 0. - but this is exactly how I want it so I'm not complaining. Thanks for any help! - eric -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/2bf66ed3-ceaf-40a0-9c6a-d7d96502928bn%40googlegroups.com.
