Hi Robert,
> DATE*SHORT="$(sed 's/.*, //' <<< "$DATE*FULL")"
My guess is you have to play with .substring, and perhaps .length, to
work through the long version until you find the comma.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
Robert Thorsby wrote:
|Temperatures here in AU have been in the range 35-45 for the past week
|and are forecast to be the same for the next week. So with no
|inclination towards serious work I have turned my attention to
|rewriting my letterhead shell script, as one does.
And you have
If you want the following behavior:
.ds DATE*FULL
The updated short date is \*[DATE*SHORT].
then I don't think that will be possible, since you can't do
any complex processing inside a string invocation. If you
are willing to treat the dates as macros instead of strings,
like so:
.DATE
On 26/01/18 01:22:39, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
If you want the following behavior:
.ds DATE*FULL
The updated short date is \*[DATE*SHORT].
Thank you Ralph and Tadziu,
The answer lay in Ralph's suggestion of the .substring request,
combined with good old nested conditionals.
Since the c
Ho Robert,
> the .substring request, combined with good old nested conditionals.
Or there's a `.while' IIRC. :-)
--
Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
On 26/01/18 10:47:12, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> the .substring request, combined with good old nested conditionals.
Or there's a `.while' IIRC. :-)
You most certainly do RC, Ralph.
Didn't occur to me that groff had loops, but I had looked up ``for''
just in case.
That should make it easier
