On 26/01/18 01:22:39, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
If you want the following behavior:
.ds DATE*FULL <modified date>
The updated short date is \*[DATE*SHORT].
Thank you Ralph and Tadziu,
The answer lay in Ralph's suggestion of the .substring request,
combined with good old nested conditionals.
Since the character count for DayOfWeek in English is 6-9 the nesting
was ``only'' four levels deep. I created the ds FIND*COMMA from
DATE*FULL and used .substring to find the pairing ``, ''. I created
the ds DATE*SHORT and subjected it to the successful .substring
request. I did not have to use .length because I was removing
characters from the front only, and .substring takes care of that.
The only thing worth mentioning is that FIND*COMMA must be redefined at
the beginning of each nested conditional, having been irrevocably
altered during the previous conditional.
Robert
