On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:25:50PM +0200, Alan DeKok wrote:
It would be good if this was documented somewhere - I actually looked in the unlang manual page for a way to get a date string, but found nothing.
doc/variables.txt
However, the VARIABLES section doesn't mention that those date-format strings are actually treated as variables whose names are single letters. It does mention the results of regular expression matches, where there are eight variables whose names are single numbers, so this looks like an omission.
There are a bunch more single-character expansions that get done.
I'd write a proper patch, but I haven't looked at the source yet, to see which exact set of date formats are supported...?
See doc/variables.txt
Adding more "man" pages would be a good idea. But the "unlang" page is already pretty big.
OK, yes, but this particular situation is a bit strange... the variables.txt file says: See "man unlang" for more complete documentation on the run-time variables. This file is here only for historical purposes. Also: The following one-character variables are also defined. However, they are duplicates of the previous general cases, and are only provided for backwards compatibility. They WILL BE removed in a future release. Which information is authoritative - should we use and depend on this, or not? If not, what would be the best general way to get things like %D? -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.