getdate & filedate

Dorian (MJT support) · Post by **Dorian (MJT support)** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:49 pm

I was going to write a macro which uploads all files changed today via ftp. Here's my dilemna.

With getdate and filedate, one returns the date in the 20050407 format and the other in the 4/7/2005

So how can I easily and reliably compare these strings if they report differently?

Dorian (MJT support) · Post by **Dorian (MJT support)** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:33 pm

Ah ha. I answered my own question. This is what I came up with, and it seems to work nicely.

FileDate>c:\306.txt,filedate
day>dy
month>mn
year>yr
concat>%yr%,%mn%
concat>%yr%,%dy%
let>today=%yr%
messagemodal>%today% %crlf%%filedate%

if>todayfiledate,end
REMARK>upload routine
messagemodal>match!!

label>end

support · Post by **support** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:00 pm

No need for Concat:

Year>yy
Month>mm
Day>dd
Let>date=%yy%%mm%%dd%

Dorian (MJT support) · Post by **Dorian (MJT support)** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:29 pm

Ah, yes, many thanks. I realize now a lot of my macros have some rather messy concats in them. I'll do it your way from now on, as it makes far more sense.