code templates: how to extract a part of a string?

[Andreas_G]

Hi all,

I try to change my code templates. And in the header of our files should be placed the actual year.

So I tried to use %eaDateTime% and extract the year out of it.

For that I need a fuction-macro like MID() to extract the year out of this. Did anybody knows a possibility to do that?

[AdamHearn]

I posted a feature request a couple of weeks backs. It's coming in Build 730...

[Andreas_G]

Hey, that sound's good. Till there I can wait.  

[AdamHearn]

A quick 'demo' of the new Macros...

Here's a chunk of CGT that supplies a DD/MM/YY date format in the variable $myCreateDate

Code: [Select]


$myDateSep="/"
$myCreateDate=%LEFT(eaDateTime,"2")%
$myCreateDate+=$myDateSep
$tmp=%MID(eaDateTime,"3","3")%
%if $tmp == "Jan"%
$myCreateDate+="01"
%elseIf $tmp == "Feb"%
$myCreateDate+="02"
%elseIf $tmp == "Mar"%
$myCreateDate+="03"
%elseIf $tmp == "Apr"%
$myCreateDate+="04"
%elseIf $tmp == "May"%
$myCreateDate+="05"
%elseIf $tmp == "Jun"%
$myCreateDate+="06"
%elseIf $tmp == "Jul"%
$myCreateDate+="07"
%elseIf $tmp == "Aug"%
$myCreateDate+="08"
%elseIf $tmp == "Sep"%
$myCreateDate+="09"
%elseIf $tmp == "Oct"%
$myCreateDate+="10"
%elseIf $tmp == "Nov"%
$myCreateDate+="11"
%elseIf $tmp == "Dec"%
$myCreateDate+="12"
%endIf%
$myCreateDate+=$myDateSep
$myCreateDate+=%MID(eaDateTime,"9","2")%