Hi all,

I have a string in my pdf document (%date%) is it possible to replace it with the current date when the document is printed. (With presstalk or something)?? Cause I can find any solution.

Note; the design is used with planetpress database.

Thx in advance!

assuming you have a global variable &testStr, and it's contents are 'testing 123 fgiafg %date% hidsfau 4'

show(&origStr) would reveal this:- 'testing 123 fgiafg|%date%|hidsfau 4'


one of the many ways to do this would be

-you can find out where your string starts using pos(); pos('%date%',&testStr) would be 20
-know that the length of %date% is 6, making your end 26
-know how long &origStr is using length()
-know how to split up your string using mid()

define(&replaceStr,string,'')
define(&start,integer,pos('%date%',&orgStr))
define(&end,integer,length(&orgStr))

&replaceStr := mid(&orgStr,1,&start - 1) + 'whatever you want' + mid(&orgStr,26,&end)

crlf()

show(&replaceStr)
crlf()
show(&orgStr)

or maybe you want to approach in this way:-


show(&orgStr)
crlf()



search(&orgStr,'%')

if(pos('date',&orgstr) > 0)
show('whatever you want')
else()
show(&orgStr)
endif()

endsearch()
show(&orgStr)
crlf()