Topic: cdate...

[MeasureUp]

I just noticed that I get different result with different input for the system variable "CDATE":
In the command prompt:

CDATE => CDATE = 20130121.16171928 (read only)
(getvar "CDATE") => 2.01301e+007

Any idea?

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BTW, when I insert "code" to the following the selected texts these texts don't show color (red in the case).

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CDATE => CDATE = [color=red]20130121.16171928 (read only)[/color]
(getvar "CDATE") => [color=red]2.01301e+007[/color]


[irneb]

It's a situation of the command-line CDATE formatting the value to a string when outputting. But obtaining the value through lisp - returns a true real value instead of a string. Thus it uses the current format for outputting real values (defined through LUNITS & LUPREC).

You could of course force the same text format through the rtos function:

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Command: (rtos (getvar "cdate") 2 8)
"20130121.08310296"

[pBe]

I just noticed that I get different result with different input for the system variable "CDATE":
In the command prompt:

CDATE => CDATE = 20130121.16171928 (read only)
(getvar "CDATE") => 2.01301e+007

Any idea?

Curious, what are you planning to use the value for? You might want to look up the menucmd/edtime. [/size]DIESEL string expression language.

[MeasureUp]

Thanks to irneb.
And to pBe: I found the difference by chance, not using for my code. Thanks. 

[irneb]

Thanks to irneb.

Pleasure!