Comments on: How To Parse A Filename in SQR

By: administrator

administrator — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:27:34 +0000

I read every comment I get. I prefer to publish the comments that will be of interest to my readers. I get comments that seem very general like “Thank you,” or “Very interesting,” or “You stole that from another site,” that seem like they could apply to any blog or any topic. As for the accusation, I’d be delighted to find another active blog about SQR, but so far I haven’t. I am impressed that all these bloggers, who write so fluently in Russian on their websites, also read my technical-English essays so well. However, it is not at all flattering to contemplate someone (or something) going from one website to the next, robotically sprinkling the web with shallow praise.

By: Lechiiq

Lechiiq — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:11:20 +0000

I will not understand why so my posts delete or do not publish and do not answer questions.

By: administrator

administrator — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:55:28 +0000

Welcome to my blog, Timur. You flatter me and I’d be glad to contiribute something useful to your site. I look forward to visiting it.

By: Timur I.

Timur I. — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:56:31 +0000

Good work! Thank you very much!
I always wanted to write in my blog something like that. Can I take part of your post to my site?
Of course, I will add backlink?

Sincerely, Timur Alhimenkov

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:24:24 +0000

Edit 12/31 using ‘DDD’? Oh, clever…

By: administrator

administrator — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:21:07 +0000

Ohhh, you are so close! Have you checked the edit() masks for dates?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:06:22 +0000

Ah, maybe you are thinking of this:

if datediff(strtodate(edit(#year + 1, ‘0000′) || ‘0101′), strtodate(edit(#year, ‘0000′) || ‘0101′), ‘day’) = 366

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:37:30 +0000

Yes, I did write SP Debugger–thanks for the comment!

By: administrator

administrator — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:19:10 +0000

Welcome, Kevin. Based on your comment, I didn’t publish your first solution. These solutions look good. But there is also a solution that you could use even if you didn’t know the rule about “every four years, except centuries, blah blah blah.”

Are you the author of SP Debugger for SQR? I’m honored to have you here. I plan to talk about your creation in a future post. People should check it out at:

http://www.sparkpath.com

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:51:12 +0000

Um, my first solution had the cond() value going into a variable…so what I posted works but probably didn’t make much sense! Try this instead…

if #year % 4 = 0 and (#year % 100 <> 0 or #year % 400 = 0)

if dateadd(strtodate(edit(#year, ‘0000′) || ‘0228′), ‘day’, 1) <> strtodate(edit(#year, ‘0000′) || ‘0301′)