Macro in macro

Nazareno Piero Babudri Beginner Posts: 2 Points: 1 Rating: 0 Authority: 0 Joined: 21 February 2007	#1 0 21 February 2007 18:34:15 Hi to all! I need your help about a problem with macro in macro. The problem is this: in one of the layout, I need to insert the date in dd.mm.yyyy format in the subject. So I think to use this macro: %SUBJECT=" / %DATE="dd.mm.yyyy""%- The result is Subj: / dd/mm/yyyy Text: dd.mm.yyyy" " Can you help me? Best regards, Brunnen.Naz

Roelof Otten Guru Posts: 2963 Points: 5336 Rating: 61 Authority: 61 Joined: 19 September 2004	#2 0 21 February 2007 20:17:03 TB starts reading from the first quotation mark to the second and considers that as the parameter for the %Subject= macro, then it goes on with your text and that shows up as: dd.mm.yyyy"" So you'd better try this: %Subject=" / %Date='dd.mm.yyyy'"%- __________________________________ I'm just a user of The Bat! I don't work for Ritlabs.

lemo nico Beginner Posts: 12 Points: 9 Rating: 4 Authority: 4 Joined: 30 April 2007	#3 0 30 April 2007 16:25:44 why not only using %ODATESHORT ? and that all... I have a small question: How can I use some regex like in the subjet ? %Subject="%SETPATTREGEXP="(?i-s)^BProduct :\s(.*)$\|\z"%-%REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%text"%-'"

Roelof Otten Guru Posts: 2963 Points: 5336 Rating: 61 Authority: 61 Joined: 19 September 2004	#4 0 30 April 2007 19:03:37 The reason not to use the DateShort macro is because that uses the system's country settings for the date. I don't know what your country settings dictate, but mine don't set a dot as separator. The way to use regexp in your subjext is the same as the original question: Don't use the same quotation marks for both macros. Your macro reads as: %Subject="%SETPATTREGEXP=" the second quotation mark sets the end of the %Subject macro. The rest of your regexp is inserted in the text body, TB doesn't care whether that text makes any sense or not. So first you start with building a regexp that has the desied output and then you build a set of quotation marks around it that you don't use in the regexp itself. You can use pairs of ' or " as quotation marks, but also things like #, _ or &. __________________________________ I'm just a user of The Bat! I don't work for Ritlabs.