Re: WC1.6 to WC2 date formatting

This WebDNA talk-list message is from

1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 11004
interpreted = N
texte = marty@artwerks.com wrote: > > This may be slightly off-topic but I'm stumped for an easy solution... > I have two date fields in my existing WC1.6 database formatted as > yyyymmdd. I'm trying to find the easiest (or laziest) method of > converting those fields to mm/dd/yyyy format in order to switch to WC2.You might want to try Torquemada from Greg Swann. I use it to convert QuarkXPress tags to html tags because it can match and store any pattern and replace it on a line-by-line basis. So you could probably look for 199# and replace it with /199#, then look for ####/199# and replace it with ##/##/199#. I think he can be found at http://www.primenet.com/~gswann/about.html. Give it a try. -- Gil Poulsen, Webmaster************************************************************** * AltiM@c * Phone: (908) 469-2567 * * 126 Jerome Avenue * FAX: (908) 469-5823 * * South Bound Brook, NJ * e-mail: help@altimac.com * * 08880-1111 * WWW: http://www.altimac.com * ************************************************************** Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. WC1.6 to WC2 date formatting -FIXED! (Marty Schmid 1997)
  2. Re: WC1.6 to WC2 date formatting (marty@artwerks.com 1997)
  3. Re: WC1.6 to WC2 date formatting (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  4. Re: WC1.6 to WC2 date formatting (Gil Poulsen 1997)
  5. WC1.6 to WC2 date formatting (marty@artwerks.com 1997)
marty@artwerks.com wrote: > > This may be slightly off-topic but I'm stumped for an easy solution... > I have two date fields in my existing WC1.6 Database formatted as > yyyymmdd. I'm trying to find the easiest (or laziest) method of > converting those fields to mm/dd/yyyy format in order to switch to WC2.You might want to try Torquemada from Greg Swann. I use it to convert QuarkXPress tags to html tags because it can match and store any pattern and replace it on a line-by-line basis. So you could probably look for 199# and replace it with /199#, then look for ####/199# and replace it with ##/##/199#. I think he can be found at http://www.primenet.com/~gswann/about.html. Give it a try. -- Gil Poulsen, Webmaster************************************************************** * AltiM@c * Phone: (908) 469-2567 * * 126 Jerome Avenue * FAX: (908) 469-5823 * * South Bound Brook, NJ * e-mail: help@altimac.com * * 08880-1111 * WWW: http://www.altimac.com * ************************************************************** Gil Poulsen

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