DATE$

I used the date$ to right a little qb prog.
If I type date at the command prompt
I shows something like this "SAT 09-09-2000"
I formatted the out put to look like "September 9th, 2000"

What I need to know is how to get the day e.g. "SAT"
so I can format it to say "Saturday" in the middle of
the screen.

I don't know how you did it, but I can't get the date$ command in Qbasic output a date with SAT or MON before it. Anyways, if u want just to extract the thirst three letters and make out of SUN sunday, in the middle of the screen... that's not so hard; here's the code. You have to fill in the x and the y for the locate statement yourself, caus' it depends on the screen resolution your using.

As I told you before, I don't know how you did the day-stuff. But you'll have to store this as a string, for example; mystring$. So you got this string, e.g. "SAT 09-09-2000" ok?. Than do this:

locate x,y 'middle of the screen
if right$(mystring$,3) = "SUN" then print "Sunday"
if right$(mystring$,3) = "MON" then print "Monday"

etcetera etcetera etcetera

Or, if you wanna safe space:

locate x,y
day$ = right$(mystring$,3)
if day$ = "SUN" then print "SUNDAY"
if day$ = "MON" then print "MONDAY"

etcetera etcetera etcetera

I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but anyways... damn... did i really talked this much?!

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Originally posted by Skateboarder
[B]I don't know how you did it, but I can't get the date$ command in Qbasic output a date with SAT or MON before it.

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that's what i was talking about.
if you type date at the prompt the bios shows it, but i
can't get qbasic to do it without some heavy coding.

i already tried many variations of the code you posted,
but can't make anything work that's short like that.

thanks anyway.

i gave up on anyone replying to this post so i gave up
qbasic for a while and went back to VBing for a while

Thanks so much for replying !!!

There is no built in way to get the day from QB.

At my last job, before we went to vb, we had a little (actually, it was kinda big) function that would return the day of week by retrieving a numeric value.

If you would like this, I can have a friend send the code and I can post it for you. But you are probably smarter going to vb anyway.

When you have the date the you can get the day with the so called "Week-Day formula" by Gauss.
I will have to find my old maths book to get the formula, so write back if you're still interested.

Yes, I am still interested, if you don't mind emailing me
at [email protected]

Thanks

i had once made a prog that displayed a calender for any year.. 1AD till 9999AD!!

It could even display BC dates but i'm not sure of its accuracy there...

I'm attatching the EXE file(30 kb)..

The source is somewhere on my HD.. if you are interested then post a note.. :)

forgot to attatch :D

(25 kb download)