Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx and JavaScript -Reply

[Doug Lawson]

On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Filip M Gieszczykiewicz wrote:

> You (Doug Lawson) wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Filip M Gieszczykiewicz wrote:
> > > Greetings. And it's soo easy to ask users to include a valid date in a
> > > custom comment line. I use:
> > > <!-- TLJSETDATE 01/01/01 -->
> > OK, I'll bite - how are you processing this html (or proto-html) ? 
> 
> Greetings. Easy - with awk (or perl, but that doesn't work yet). I

> perl rewrite is in progress.. alas, I'm wondering why fix what ain't broke..
> so it's going slowly... ;-)

Hmmm - off thetop of my head, something like:
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#!/usr/whatever/perl -i.bak
# use the -i switch for in place editing of each file listed 
# on the command line

@Months = ("January",
           "February",
           "March",
           "whatever..." );

($Csec,$Cmin,$Chour,$Cmday,$Cmon,$Cyear,$Cwday,$Cyday,$Cisdst) =
      localtime($CTime);

$DateString = sprintf("%s %2d %4d",$Months[$Cmon],$Cmday,(1900 + $Cyear)); 

while(<>)
{ if (/<\!-- *TLJSETDATE *--\>/o) 
    { s/TLJSETDATE/$DateString/g;}  

}
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I'm not sure what your whole script is trying to do, but this will 
replace all instance of "TLJSETDATE" with the current date in the 
form "November 16 1996". 

Later 

Doug


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