Subj : FGET_TIME
To : Ace
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Feb 16 2002 06:09 pm
Re: FGET_TIME
By: Ace to DIGITAL MAN on Sat Feb 16 2002 12:49 pm
> > > I can't get this...! (DAMN!) The above makes sense to me but
> > > GET_FILE_TIME <int_var> <str_var> doesn't, and seems opposite of what
> > > need. How do I get "e:\sbbs\xtrn\news.txt" into <str_var> to use in
> > > this function, and then that date/time into my newsdate string?
>
> DM>str fname
> >int ftime
> >str newsdate
> >set fname "e:/sbbs/xtrn/news.txt"
> >get_file_time ftime fname
> >time_str newsdate ftime
>
>
> DM>That should work. What did you try?
>
> Holy crap! What genius decided to use /'s instead of normal \'s ??
Either one will work, but forward-slashes are Unix-compatible and back-slashes
are not.
> No wonder I've had such a hard time...!
Back-slashes were not your problem.
> Why is this and how long has it been a secret?
It hasn't been a secret. I've posted about forward slashes in Baja pathnames
many times.
> (prg works great now btw, thanks! :)
Great!
> (PS. I was also using SETSTR instead of SET)
Doesn't matter, either will work (to set the "str" variable, that is).
-Rob
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