Subj : Re: Varrible assignments
To : Finnigann
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Sep 08 2007 11:29 pm
Re: Re: Varrible assignments
By: Finnigann to Digital Man on Sat Sep 08 2007 11:18 pm
> -=> With regards to the social ramifications;
> Digital Man wrote to Finnigann <=-
>
> DM> Re: Varrible assignments
> DM> By: Finnigann to All on Sat Sep 08 2007 10:42 am
>
> >
> >
> > How would I get the file extention into a varrible?
> >
> > [Example]
> >
> > Contest.845 file name,
> > ^^
> > which would change from week to week as part of the extention (last
> > two digits are the week of the year).
> >
> > If your reply doesn't show how to get the file name into a varrible,
> > how might that be done, too.
> >
> > advThanksance.
> >
> > In the I'm-gonna-hate-myself-in-the-morning dept...I downloaded Jas'
> > oneliner program (with .SRC) and am actually learning from it. Thanks.
>
> DM> If the filename portion is fixed-length (e.g. always "Contest", 7
> DM> chars), then the following would work:
>
> DM> str extension
> DM> copy extension filename
> DM> shift_str extension 7 # filename portion is always 7 chars
>
>
> Would the dot count as a space?
It's a character, yeah.
> contest.845
> 12345678
Yeah, I usually think of the dot as part of the extension. Shift 8 chars if you
don't want the dot in your string.
> DM> str extension # defining varrible 'extention' as a string
> DM> copy extension filename # I'm gonna have to hard code the filename
> # right?
> DM> shift_str extension 7 # filename portion is always 7 chars
>
>
> The filename (CONTEST) stays the same, will wild cards work in BAJA for
> the extention?
In strings, any/all characters are valid.
> copy extention contest.??? # Making sure that there are never more
> # than one file name in the work dir.
I'm not really sure what you're trying to do there. If you want to find if a
file exists on disk, using wildcards, use the CHKFILE function or the
OPEN_DIR/READ_DIR/CLOSE_DIR functions.
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