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Re: Match Question

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Jan 20, 2007
• 530 views

don cole wrote:
> 
>   Thanks Pete,
> 
>   BTW get_short_year() simply converts 10/10/2007 to 10/10/07 which I think
> looks better especially in a list.
> 
OK, I thought as much. Personally, I would find it much easier to write a
routine such as:

date_as_short_year(integer year, integer month, integer day)
   year=remainder(year,100)

 than your (admittedly existing)

get_short_year(sequence ds)

Admittedly I thought you might be scanning for '\' or counting backwards, but I
guess (untested!) l=length(ds); return ds[1..l-4]&ds[l-1..l] would do just as
well.

As for "looking better", I always, always do dates in %02d/%02d.. format.

Regards,
Pete