[chuck-users] timestamp (Gonzalo)

[Perry R Cook]

One way to do it would be to pass it in
as an argument or other when you run ChucK.
This example uses stdin to read the output
of a <date> command in the shell:

// TestDate.ck  Perry R. Cook, Dec. 2014
ConsoleInput stdin;     // gonna read from here
stdin.prompt("") => now; // wait until something comes in
string datetime; // date and time
string datetimenow; // plus time since chuck invoked tacked on
while (stdin.more())  {  stdin.getLine() => datetime;  } // read input
datetime.setCharAt(9,'-'); // replace time string colons
datetime.setCharAt(12,'-'); // with dashes instead
datetime+"-"+Std.ftoa(now/second,4) => datetimenow; // tack on time since chuck invoked
<<< datetimenow >>>;
// If you want to continue making updated unique
// strings, just keep redoing the datetimenow line
1.5*second => now;
datetime+"-"+Std.ftoa(now/second,4) => datetimenow; // tack on time since chuck invoked
<<< datetimenow >>>;

To use this:

date +"%m%d%y-%T" | chuck TestDate.ck

Outputs (date-H-M-S-now):

"120614-15-00-09-0.0000" : (string)
"120614-15-00-09-1.5000" : (string)