How to insert the date in a specified format with a macro?

[AllanB]

Hi,

new to macros. Love UltraEdit.
What I want to do is at the end of this macro I want to put a string of today's data in this format: _2009-03-12-11-03AM.txt

The macro won't compile due to the last line. It appears I cannot interpret the code sample in the manual correctly.
Any healp would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

Allan

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"/* AUTHOR : AllanB */"
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[DATE_USER_SYS]'_'yyyy'-'mm'-'dd'-'hh'-'mmtt[DATE_USER_SYS_END]

[Mofi]

You can't use a template definition in a macro. You have to create a template and call this from within the macro. For example I have 2 templates:

Template 0 is named "Date German" and has the template code [DATE_USER]dd'.'MM'.'yyyy[DATE_USER_END]

Template 1 is named "Date International" and has the template code [DATE_USER]yyyy'-'MM'-'dd[DATE_USER_END]

In a macro which is written for updating dates in HTML files I use the macro commands Template 0 and Template 1.


A second variant is to use the macro command TimeDate to insert date and time as defined in the Windows regional and language settings and reformat it with a regular expression search and replace. I don't like this method because it depends on the date and time format defined in the regional and language settings of Windows. So I don't have control how the inserted date and time looks like. But this variant has the advantage that it does not depend on the currently loaded templates.

[AllanB]

Thanks for you help

Allan