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| Posted by
| Balerion
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| Tue 30 Jan 2007 05:24 PM (UTC) |
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| I've got some of the os calls out of the Sandbox, as directed elsewhere on the site, which I've been using to append a time stamp to pages that get directed to a notepad window. I'm thinking I'd like to keep daily logs of these things using SaveNotepad. My only problem is that I can't figure out how to give each file a unique name based on the day -- something like "my_notepad - 2006-01-30.txt" -- while using the SaveNotepad function. os.date doesn't seem to work inside the SaveNotepad function, and putting the desired timestring into a variable doesn't work as the Notepad just spits out the variable name (such as "t") rather than the variable content.
Is there any good way of doing this? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,165 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Tue 30 Jan 2007 06:50 PM (UTC) |
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| | I don't see why it wouldn't work, apart from coding errors. Can you please post your version, using os.date, that you say doesn't work? |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Balerion
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| Reply #2 on Tue 30 Jan 2007 10:16 PM (UTC) |
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| Almost certainly it's my own mistake somewhere. I tried a number of things, but they're all variations of something like this:
t = os.date(%Y-%m-%d)
SaveNotepad("Game Log","c:/MUSH/MUSHclient/logs/Page Log - t.txt",0)
I'm guessing the problem is that I don't really understand how the os.date output gets put within the SaveNotepad function. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Reply #3 on Tue 30 Jan 2007 11:02 PM (UTC) |
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| Oh. Lua has no idea that you're talking about the variable t and not the letter t. And that's a really good thing, actually -- otherwise it would replace the two t's in "txt" with your date!
Try:
SaveNotepad("Game Log","c:/MUSH/MUSHclient/logs/Page Log - " .. t .. ".txt",0)
instead. The .. operator is for string concatenation. |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
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Legends of the Darkstone
http://david.the-haleys.org | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Balerion
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| Reply #4 on Tue 30 Jan 2007 11:05 PM (UTC) |
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| | Ah-ha. I hadn't quite understood what the .. .. thing meant before. Thanks. :) | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,165 posts) Bio
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| Reply #5 on Wed 31 Jan 2007 03:23 AM (UTC) |
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| Also, os.date takes a string argument. Eg.
print (os.date(%Y-%m-%d)) --> Error: unexpected symbol near '%'
print (os.date("%Y-%m-%d")) --> 2007-01-31
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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