Convert date to seconds

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Wed Jul 17 21:51:25 EDT 2013


Tom-

Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 6:03:26 PM, you wrote:

> The reason I ask is I am making filenames by merging a name like
> "Thomas" or "Tom" with the date converted to seconds as in
> "Thomas1376625600.txt" or "Tom1376625600.txt" 

Regex to the rescue:

get matchtext(tFileName, "([A-Za-z]+)([0-9]+)", tName, tSeconds)

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net





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