edit for date with month spelled in abbreviated format

Dennis Malen dmalen at malen.com
Wed Jun 6 20:42:44 PDT 2012


Ken,

Can you do the exercise for use to show us exactly how to do it. Your suggestion could be very useful to many of us.

Thanks!

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 8:29 PM
To: Dennis Malen
Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: edit for date with month spelled in abbreviated format

On 6/6/2012 6:19 PM, Dennis Malen wrote:
> There are many different types of edits for date such as mdy/ etc.
>
> I am look for an edit that changes the date to this format: Jan 01, 2012.
>
> It would be similar to what @dt does. Is there such an edit??
[...]

Copy MMM_YY, rename it, and change it to not delete the day and add the comma.

I leave the implementation as an exercise to the user.  :-)

-- 
Kenneth Brody



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