HP 3000 Manuals

HP Business BASIC/XL Reference Manual

DAT3000$ 

The DAT3000$ function returns a substring of the date string returned by
the HP 3000 DATELINE intrinsic.  On the HP 3000 under MPE XL, the date
string is a string of 27 characters with the following format:

     MON, MAR  3, 1986, 12:44 PM

Syntax 

DAT3000$ (num_expr1, num_expr2)

Parameters 

num_expr1        A numeric expression that evaluates to the position of
                 the first character of the date string.

num_expr2        A numeric expression that evaluates to the position of
                 the last desired character of the date string.

                 Both num_expr1 and num_expr2 must evaluate to a value in
                 the range of [1, 27], inclusive.  The value of num_expr1 
                 must be less than or equal to the value of num_expr2.
                 If any of these conditions is violated an error occurs.

Examples 

     10 A$=DAT3000$(1,17)
     15 PRINT "12345678901234567"
     20 PRINT A$
     99 END

The above program prints:

     12345678901234567
     MON, MAR  3, 1986

     10 A$=DAT3000$(1,10)
     15 PRINT "1234567890"
     20 PRINT A$
     99 END

The previous program prints:

     1234567890
     MON, MAR

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