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Topic: Timestamp

Posted By: Dagijoana
Subject: Timestamp
Date Posted: 15.Jul.2010 at 15:42

Hi Steven,

just a simple question. How can I manage to add a creation timestamp to a file generated by the MERL generator?

Thanks!

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Posted By: stevek
Date Posted: 16.Jul.2010 at 01:34

I'd just use a DOS command, e.g.
external 'cmd /x /c echo %DATE% %TIME% >>myfile.txt' executeBlocking

If you want to timestamp several files from the same run, you can read that timestamp into a variable and use it again. Change >> to > above and then do:

variable 'timestamp' write
filename 'myfile.txt' read
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You can then just output $timestamp as normal into the files you are generating, e.g.

'// Generated from MetaEdit+ ' $timestamp