Travis , I have a lot of reading to do.. Where did you find the PDF document? Louie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussions on developing for Mac OS X by the blind" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 6:40 PM Subject: Re: Apple script > This one is done for us by apple already. > Each of the date fields already has a corresponding string we can get. > month string, gives the month (jan, feb, mar, ...) Day string gives > us 1,2,3,... (day of month) year string gives us the year, and > weekday string gives us the day of the week (monday, tuesday, ...) > They all work the same as shown below with the time field. > They're listed on page 62 in the adobe version of the apple scripting > manual (I don't know where they are in the html version) > hth. > On Dec 11, 2005, at 8:57 PM, louie wrote: > >> Travis this be cool. What I would like to do is parse ever field >> out of the >> string. The would be a hour, minute, second, am pm, year, month and >> so on. >> How does one find the structure of date? >> Thanks >> Louie >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Travis Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Discussions on developing for Mac OS X by the blind" >> <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 4:09 PM >> Subject: Re: Apple script >> >> >> >>> Yeah, I noticed that too. It has a lot to do with what datatype the >>> data is. Apparently strings are interpreted letter by letter, >>> whereas other data types such as date are interpreted as uunits for >>> each portion of the date. Here's something that does what you want, >>> though it doesn't use terminal to do so. You can of course still use >>> terminal in your script, as the results will be the same. >>> >>> ** begin script** >>> set thedate to (current date) as date >>> set time1 to time string of thedate >>> say "It is " >>> say time1 >>> **End script** >>> This doesn't use the item usage described before, but with the date >>> type, it does work as expected. I have no idea why strings are >>> treated as letters instead of words. You could of coourse use the >>> repeat command to get each word individually using space as the >>> matching char for separation. It seems to me there should be another >>> method for doing this. I'll see if I can find it. I'm only a >>> beginner with apple scripting, so I know there's things I have >>> overlooked or not learned. >>> On Dec 11, 2005, at 2:37 PM, louie wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Travis Thanks for the help. It did not work like you said. >>>> set dat to current date as string >>>> set d to get item 1 of dat >>>> say d >>>> What this code produced was the first letter of the string or >>>> should I say >>>> list. >>>> >>>> Louie >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Travis Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> To: "Discussions on developing for Mac OS X by the blind" >>>> <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 11:11 PM >>>> Subject: Re: Apple script >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> To get any part of a string (Apple calls them lists) you use the >>>>> "Item" keyword. >>>>> I.E. item 4 of D in your example would include the year. >>>>> Get Item 4 of D would result in D containing 2005. >>>>> Hope this helps. >>>>> On Dec 8, 2005, at 8:25 PM, louie wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> I am trying to figure out how to parse a string. >>>>>> the string is created with the below line of code. >>>>>> set d to current date as string >>>>>> This produces the string >>>>>> Thursday, December 8, 2005 5:15:11 PM >>>>>> What I would like to do is get the month, name of day, day of >>>>>> month >>>>>> and year. >>>>>> Thanks for any help. >>>>>> Louie >>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Developer mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/ >>>>>> developer_macvisionaries.com >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Developer mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/ >>>>> developer_macvisionaries.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Developer mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/ >>>> developer_macvisionaries.com >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Developer mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/ >>> developer_macvisionaries.com >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Developer mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/ >> developer_macvisionaries.com >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/developer_macvisionaries.com > _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/developer_macvisionaries.com
