Formatting Date in Command Line 1

[jessiejane]

I need to pass command line arguments in VB.NET.

The command line argument has current date appended to the filename. The date is in the format of MMDDYY.

Example: Test110709.txt

How would I code the date in this format(MMDDYY) in the command line.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[jebenson]

Use the Format function with a custom date format. Using today's date:

Dim sFileName As String

sFileName = "Test" & Format(Date.Today, "MMddyy") & ".txt"

Here's a link to the .NET custom date and time format strings:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx

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[jessiejane]

I have to pass in the command line i.e. command prompt the date.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[realm174]

jessiejane: I'm a little confused as what you're trying to do from where... The code provided by jebenson will give you a filename that matches your criteria based on today's date. you can then use that filename wherever you need it to.

If what you're saying is that you have a VB application that takes a command line parameter, and you want to find out from DOS how to generate that filename with the date, then it's a different story, which I'm not sure fits in this forum.

If what you're trying to achieve is read the filename that was provided on the command line, and figure out the date from it, then that can easily be done, you just need to ask for that.

If that's not what you were looking for, then I'm sorry, I'm afraid I have no idea what you're trying to do.



Cheers,

Realm174

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