[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-01-31 23:05, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <keeoak$tk0$1 at iltempo.update.uu.se>,
> 	Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> On 2013-01-31 22:25, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> On 2013-01-31 20:22, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>> In article <keeb7i$e15$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>>>      Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>>>> On 2013-01-31 17:38:45 +0000,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> $ filename =
>>>>>> filenameprefix+"_"+F$fao("!19AS",F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON"))-"-"-"-"-"
>>>>>> "-":"-":"+".dmp"
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah.  Or add the prefix and the underscore into the f$fao, as that
>>>>> avoids clobbering caracters in the prefix.
>>>>
>>>> And tell me how the above is not cryptic?  Just what is the difference
>>>> between the first dash and the second?  Or the third?  And would anyone
>>>> normal determine that?  :-)
>>>
>>> Maybe it would be more obvious with some appropriately placed spaces...
>>>
>>> $ filename = filenameprefix + "_" +
>>> F$fao("!19AS",F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON")) - "-" - "-" - "-" - ":" - ":" +
>>> ".dmp"
>>>
>>> Ie, remove three dashes and two colons, and then add something at the
>>> end. (Ignoring what's going on at the beginning.)
>>
>> And my mistake, it should have read:
>>
>> $ filename = filenameprefix + "_" +
>> F$fao("!19AS",F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON")) - "-" - "-" - " " - ":" - ":" +
>> ".dmp"
>>
>> That was, two dashes, a space, two colons, and then add some...
>>
>
> I rest my case.  :-)

Why? Because I put a dash in where there should have been a space? The 
reason for that is that the space had disappeared because of wrapping in 
news. So I had a "" in there, and through "hmm, that can't be right, I 
must have deleted a dash by accident".

If you find the above hard in general, then I suspect you are not very 
comfortable with many programming languages either, which have similar 
type of operations all over the place.

	Johnny

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