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Re: Create unique temporary file [message #40674 is a reply to message #40669]

Tue, 24 August 2004 23:47

Michael Wallace
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Registered: December 2003

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> Here is how I create a unique journal file name:
>
> Print, String('journal_', Bin_Date(SysTime()), '.pro', $
> Format='(A, I4, 5I2.2, A)')

Thanks for the idea. I had thought of using a current system time
stamp, but it totally slipped my mind that I could concatenate the
number together so easily. It's little details like that which I'm
still learning. When I finally wrote my code, not only did I take the
date as you did, but I further appended a random number and I did a
check of file existence to ensure that nothing would ever get clobbered.
The only way this could fail would be if there were some insane
once-in-a-lifetime freakish occurrence. Now that I've said this, this
will happen tomorrow. ;-)

> P.S. Bin_Date!? What the heck is that!

The kind of code you get when you give coyotes caffeine late at night?

-Mike

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		Re: Create unique temporary file By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 25 August 2004 06:54
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		Re: Create unique temporary file By: David Fanning on Tue, 24 August 2004 22:04
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