Re: Timestamp to a string

Sandeep wrote:

Tom Leylan wrote:
People seem to be interpreting your question as "how do create and
concatenate a date string" which I think we can see it isn't.  Your main
problem (it seems to me) is to recognize whether there is a date on the
filename presently.  You have to derive a function to test for the presence
of a date which doesn't mistake some legitimate filename for your
concatenated string.

It isn't hard to do but you should isolate it into a single method
IsDatePresent() or something like that so you can adjust the code if you get
a false positive at some point.  You know it should be attached to the end
of the filename, it should follow a 99-99-9999 convention and the filename
cannot be shorter than 11 characters or there couldn't be a date string
attached (it had to have at least  one character initially).



I Think you are the closest to my problem. To add to what I already
wrote, I want to give an option of specifying the timestamp format to
the user and append the timestamp to it if any formatting is present.
So the format can be "MM-DD-YYYY" or "MM-DD-YYYY 0.0.0" or any format
that is supported by "DateFormat" class. Looks like there is no direct
function which can do this - and writing a custom function to check for
all such cases would be very difficult ... I probably would restrict
the number of formats that can be specified.

Sandeep


How do you intend to capture the format required? Is it going to be a free-hand entry or a series of options on the screen with different pre-defined formats available?
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