Trouble with Send Date to Make a File

[Jimbo13]

I need to Send the date to be used as a file name, but only have 8 Characters to use.

I have an old Extech 38332 multimeter that has an RS-232 interface.

I'm able to launch the meter interface software, navigate through it to get everything automated except the file naming, which needs to be the date > 12/21/08 < format, that's no more than 8 char. long.

what I see typed into the file input location is > 1/29/200 <then everything comes to a halt.

I'm sure there is a way of shortening the date to give just 08, but I need some help.

Did I mention novice!!!

Here is what I'm trying:

#include <Date.au3>

_NowDate()

_DateTimeFormat(@YEAR & "/" & @MON & "/" & @MDAY, 0)

Send(_DateTimeFormat(@YEAR & "/" & @MON & "/" & @MDAY, 0))

what I see typed into the file input location is > 1/29/200 <then everything comes to a halt.

Jimbo

[Squirrely1]

You don't need to include Date.au3 for this, and you cannot use the "/" character in a filename on Windows systems, as far as I know. If you are not actually trying to create a Windows file, but only to send a particular string to a device or control, then replace the "-" characters in the following code, with your "/" character.

But following will work for a filename and is ready to test, but I rarely begin a filename with a number:

$date = StringRight(@YEAR,2) & "-" & @MON & "-" & @MDAY
MsgBox(0, "", $date)

If you used "." in place of "/" - Eurostyle, then some machine somewhere might mistake it for the marker of a file extension.

I guess you just need this for the Send function:

$date = StringRight(@YEAR,2) & "/" & @MON & "/" & @MDAY
Send($date)

But welcome to the AutoIt forums, anyhow!

Edited January 29, 2008 by Squirrely1

[GEOSoft]

I need to Send the date to be used as a file name, but only have 8 Characters to use.

I have an old Extech 38332 multimeter that has an RS-232 interface.

I'm able to launch the meter interface software, navigate through it to get everything automated except the file naming, which needs to be the date > 12/21/08 < format, that's no more than 8 char. long.

what I see typed into the file input location is > 1/29/200 <then everything comes to a halt.

I'm sure there is a way of shortening the date to give just 08, but I need some help.

Did I mention novice!!!

Here is what I'm trying:

#include <Date.au3>

_NowDate()

_DateTimeFormat(@YEAR & "/" & @MON & "/" & @MDAY, 0)

Send(_DateTimeFormat(@YEAR & "/" & @MON & "/" & @MDAY, 0))

what I see typed into the file input location is > 1/29/200 <then everything comes to a halt.

Jimbo

Use StringRight(@Year, 2) instead of @Year

[Jimbo13]

You don't need to include Date.au3 for this, and you cannot use the "/" character in a filename on Windows systems, as far as I know. If you are not actually trying to create a Windows file, but only to send a particular string to a device or control, then replace the "-" characters in the following code, with your "/" character.

But following will work for a filename and is ready to test:

$date = StringRight(@YEAR,2) & "-" & @MON & "-" & @MDAY
MsgBox(0, "", $date)

If you used "." in place of "/" - Eurostyle, then some machine somewhere might mistake it for the marker of a file extension.

I guess you just need this for the Send function:

$date = StringRight(@YEAR,2) & "/" & @MON & "/" & @MDAY
Send($date)

But welcome to the AutoIt forums, anyhow!

from jimbo

Thanks, that did the trick, I figured I was trying to make it too complicated.