edit for date with month spelled in abbreviated format

[Dennis Malen]

Trying to test this: jj(8,mdy/)="05/01/12";da(12,mmm_yy)=jj
Msgbox "da"<da shows the result to be "da"

Also not sure of the "12" in definition of "da".

Could it be my version of 5.0?

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net] 
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 7:53 AM
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 11:42 PM, Dennis Malen wrote:
> 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.

Actually, I included my "solution" hidden in my original reply.  (Although
it appears that some SMTP server along the way added an extra space after
the comma.  I double-checked, and it's not in the copy in my "sent" folder,
but it's in the copy I received back from the mailing list.)

It took less than a minute to write (following the directions I included in
my reply, below).  Give it a shot before giving up.

[...]
> 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