mdy/ edit

[Jeff Harrison]

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> From: "scooter6 at gmail.com" <scooter6 at gmail.com>
>To: Jeff Harrison <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: "filepro-list at lists.celestial.com" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> 
>Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 10:44 AM
>Subject: Re: mdy/ edit
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>   Well, there were only about 4-5 'critical' spots that I wanted this to adamantly show "/" instead of "-" so I just added some
>   input processing for @wlf so it replaces any "-" with "/"
>   That will accomplish what I wanted short term anyways....
>   Can I create say  'mdy//' as a new global edit?  This edit would still require mm/dd/yy - but would replace "-" with "/" if
>   someone tried to put them in the 3rd and 6th spot?  Is this type of edit possible? (I'm sure it is, just not sure of the syntax)
>   Then I could modify the files affected and change their edits to mdy// from mdy/.....
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Yes, you could do that.  To avoid confusion I would not use "mdy//" as the name though as that looks like a typo to the casual observer.  Also, if you do this you loose the "dateness" (Trade mark!)  :-)  You could no longer do date math directly, and sorting /selection would be messed up.  So I would advise making the edit for data entry, but actually storing the end result in a mdy/ field.


Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
Author of JHExport and JHImport