Re: To add time stamp

You can use systemfunc instead of system, which will return the output
of the command as a string:

    s = systemfunc("date")

--Mary

On Apr 26, 2012, at 8:18 AM, Noel Aloysius wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to add time stamp in a control file that describes a binary
> file. I created a script as follows,
>
> How can I replace system("date") in l2 with a fucntion that writes
> date and time?
>
> ------ begin script
>
> ; write control file
> l1 = "dset ^" + fnames_out(i)
> l2 = "title - file " + fnames_out(i) + " created by Noel on
> " + system("date")
> l3 = "undef -999.000000"
> l4 = "xdef 360 linear 0.500000 1.000000"
> l5 = "ydef 180 linear -89.500000 1.000000"
> l7 = "tdef 708 linear jan1948 1mo"
> l8 = "vars 1"
> l9 = "data 0 99 The data"
> l10 = "endvars"
> str = (/l1,l2,l3,l4,l5,l6,l7,l8,l9,l10/)
> asciiwrite(diri + fnames_out_ctl(i), str)
>
> ----- end script
>
> Thanks,
> Noel
>
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