Time Stamped Filename

[shoodabean]

Hi, im generating some stuff and saving it to a text file. All is good, but i would like to be able to save it to a filename suchas: somefile-01-11-2005--16-13.txt

 

Where the '01-11-2005--16-13' is the time the file is created.

 

Cant seem to find a way to specify a program/macro generated filename. Is it possible ?

 

Thanks.

[joe]

What you want is the Date/Time command within the Text category. It allows you to save a timestamp to a text variable which can then be used as a file name.

[shoodabean]

Thanks for your reply joe, I've found the Date/Time command, but not sure how to make that a filename. Could you give me some 'eedjut' proof guidance please ?

[lemming]

This posting contains example code for a filename with timestamp.

[shoodabean]

ahh! I wasn't aware that you could use variables within the filename dialog boxes.

 

Great Stuff! Thankyou both.

[floyd]

You can use variables in almost any field that takes literals as input. Macro Express substitutes the variable with its contents at run time.