NXC: formatted DateTime string?

[HaWe]

hi,
ist there already implemented a formatted DateTime string from clock?
Like this (just quick and dirty - but maybe it could be quicker and less dirty)^^:

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#define clock()  (CurrentTick()-FirstTick()) // C-like

string gettimeofday(unsigned long lTime) {
  int s1000, sec, min, hour, day;
  string sTime;
 
  s1000=lTime%1000;
  lTime/=1000;
  sec=lTime%60;
  lTime/=60;
  min=lTime%60;
  lTime/=60;
  hour=lTime%24;
  lTime/=24;

  sTime=StrCat(FormatNum("%d",lTime),"d ",FormatNum("%02d",hour),":",FormatNum("%02d",min),"'",FormatNum("%02d",sec),".",FormatNum("%03d",s1000));
  return(sTime);
}

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TextOut(0, 8, gettimeofday(clock() );  // time since program start

(no month and year so far)

ps
how do I get a quote mark
"
into a NXC text string?

[muntoo]

ist there already implemented a formatted DateTime string from clock?

I seriously doubt it.

[Under construction] I'll work on my implementation here:

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enum
{
    SUNDAY,
    MONDAY,
    TUESDAY,
    WEDNESDAY,
    THURSDAY,
    FRIDAY,
    SATURDAY
};

struct SYSTEMTIME {
    unsigned long Year;
    unsigned long Month;
    unsigned long DayOfWeek;
    unsigned long Day;
    unsigned long Hour;
    unsigned long Minute;
    unsigned long Second;
    unsigned long Milliseconds;

    unsigned long prevGet; // Tick at last SYSTEMTIME_get() ???
};

SYSTEMTIME basetime;


SYSTEMTIME SYSTEMTIME_add(SYSTEMTIME a, SYSTEMTIME b)
{
    a.Milliseconds = a.Milliseconds + b.Milliseconds;
    a.Second = (a.Second + b.Second) + (a.Milliseconds / 1000);
    a.Minute = (a.Minute + b.Minute) + (a.Second / 60);
    a.Hour = (a.Hour + b.Hour) + (a.Minute / 60);
    a.Day = (a.Day + b.Day) + (a.Hour / 24);

    // ??? This should be exclusive ???
    a.DayOfWeek = ;


    // How many days in a month???
    a.Month = ;


    a.Year = (a.Year + b.Year) + (a.Month / 12);


    // Shrink
    a.Milliseconds %= 1000;
    a.Second %= 60;
    a.Minute %= 60;
    a.Hour %= 24;

    a.Day %= ????;

    a.DayOfWeek %= 7;
    a.Month %= 12;
    // a.Year %= 0xFFFFFFFF; // Uh...

    return(a);
}

SYSTEMTIME SYSTEMTIME_subtract(SYSTEMTIME a, SYSTEMTIME b)
{

}

void SYSTEMTIME_init(unsigned long Year, unsigned long Month, unsigned long DayOfWeek, unsigned long Day, unsigned long Hour, unsigned long Minute, unsigned long Second, unsigned long Milliseconds)
{
    basetime.Year = Year;
    basetime.Month = Month;
    basetime.DayOfWeek = DayOfWeek;
    basetime.Day = Day;
    basetime.Hour = Hour;
    basetime.Minute = Minute;
    basetime.Second = Second;
    basetime.Milliseconds = Milliseconds;
}

SYSTEMTIME SYSTEMTIME_get()
{
    SYSTEMTIME stTemp;

    stTemp.Milliseconds = CurrentTick();
    stTemp = SYSTEMTIME_add(basetime, stTemp);

    return(stTemp);
}

As you can see, I have no clue what I'm doing.

how do I get a quote mark
"
into a NXC text string?

What do you mean?

[HaWe]

nice to meet you :)
well as my time string questions seems to be answered -

with my 2nd question

how do I get a quote mark
"
into a NXC text string?

I meant: how do I get the quote mark
"
into a text string? :)))

if one wants to write the text string in C containing the double-apostrophe, e.g.

the traffic sign said "hug me"

usually one has to redouble it:

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string LAstory="the traffic sign said ""hug me""";
printf(LAstory);

but somehow I don't get that into a NXC string...

actually I tried that for another reason: I wanted to mark the minutes by a ' and the seconds by a " :
12:34'18"

[mattallen37]

Can you flatten the number 34 (0x22)? That is the ASCII value of a >"<.

[spillerrec]

No, that is not how it is usually done. You normally do it like this:

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"the traffic sign said \"hug me\""

This works in NXC too.
I have never seen it done with "". I tried it in my C++ compiler and it compiles fine, however it treats it as two separate strings (there can even be spaces in between) and then simply joins them without the quotes.

[HaWe]

how can I convert the character Flatten(34) to a string?

[HaWe]

I have never seen it done with ""

hmmm: should that have been Pascal...?

but

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"\""

works, thanks! :)

[mattallen37]

how can I convert the character Flatten(34) to a string?

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task main(){
  string Text = Flatten(0x22);
  TextOut(0, LCD_LINE1, Text);
  while(true);
}

Flatten is the command I use to convert numbers (or arrays) into ASCII characters (or strings of them).

[HaWe]

ok, I see, thank you!

[muntoo]

More on escape sequences.

And, of course, Microsoft loves doing things their own way.

In C++, the following are all equivalent:

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string text = "abcdefghijkl";

string text = "abcd"
              "efgh"
              "ijkl";

string text = "abcd\
efgh\
ijkl";

In Visual Basic, and a few other languages, "" is the same as \" in C++.