Just a quick note on date manipulation.
So what does it mean when you see the following in a script:
set /a y=%date:~-4%
set /a d=%date:~07,2%
set /a m=%date:~-10,2%
easy as pie. First you need to know the date format you will be using:
echo %date%
Tue 10/15/2013
Now, here's what our code above means.
Set /a y - Of course, you set the value for y for year.
%date:~-4% - you call on the date as with the echo command earlier. But only display the value starting from -4 up to the last character. The negative value indicates that you should count from the last character of the date value. from here, -4 lands on the number 2. It will then display from that number up to the last which is 2013.
Set /a d - d is for day.
%date:~07,2% - Similar from the above, it calls the date and counts from the positive 7th character. The number 2 then indicates that you should read 2 characters starting from character 7. From our example, the value is 15.
set /a m - m for month, obviously :)
%date:~-10,2% - lastly, as another example, you count from the last digit up to the 10th character. Display 2 digits from the 10th character which is 10.
The example above shows that we can use either a negative or positive values in setting the date value on a variable.
So what does it mean when you see the following in a script:
set /a y=%date:~-4%
set /a d=%date:~07,2%
set /a m=%date:~-10,2%
easy as pie. First you need to know the date format you will be using:
echo %date%
Tue 10/15/2013
Now, here's what our code above means.
Set /a y - Of course, you set the value for y for year.
%date:~-4% - you call on the date as with the echo command earlier. But only display the value starting from -4 up to the last character. The negative value indicates that you should count from the last character of the date value. from here, -4 lands on the number 2. It will then display from that number up to the last which is 2013.
Set /a d - d is for day.
%date:~07,2% - Similar from the above, it calls the date and counts from the positive 7th character. The number 2 then indicates that you should read 2 characters starting from character 7. From our example, the value is 15.
set /a m - m for month, obviously :)
%date:~-10,2% - lastly, as another example, you count from the last digit up to the 10th character. Display 2 digits from the 10th character which is 10.
The example above shows that we can use either a negative or positive values in setting the date value on a variable.
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