[Info-vax] OpenVMS - DCL - Data entry filtering

[David Froble]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <mf4jdf$ahn$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 
> 
>> So, you want a unique filename.  This should work in most cases ....
>>
>> $ ! Get date in YYYY-MM-DD format
>> $
>> $ T = f$cvtime(f$time())
>> $
>> $ ! Now convert to YYYYMMDD format
>> $
>> $ YY = f$extract(0,4,T)
>> $ MM = f$extract(5,2,T)
>> $ DD = f$extract(8,2,T)
>> $ HH = f$extract(11,2,T)
>> $ NN = f$extract(14,2,T)
>> $ SS = f$extract(17,2,T)
>> $ XX = f$extract(20,2,T)
>> $
>> $ D = YY + MM + DD + HH + NN + SS + XX
>> $
>> $ write sys$output D
> 
> Much quicker: 
> 
>    $  WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$UNIQUE()
> 

But, as a bonus, I get a time stamp, and the output from that f$unique() 
can be rather ugly, and harder to type.