* Date Phrase plugin

[LornaCraig]

Running the Find Date Phrase plugin produces 'No Date Phrases Found'. But I know there are some. What am I doing wrong?

Lorna

ID:5319

[PeterR]

The first line in the for ... do ... end loop is:

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pi:MoveTo(pi,strTypeDesc)

According to the Help file example, this line should be:

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pi:MoveToFirstRecord(strTypeDesc)

If you use this line instead, the Plugin does return the correct result.  I think there may be another bug in that 'nill' is used instead of 'nil'.

[LornaCraig]

Thanks Peter, that fixes it. I now have a long list of date phrases!

Lorna

[Jane]

Good Catch.

I'll fix the master copy when I get a moment.

Pre-Beta some of the functions got changed around and I think that's a hang over I missed.

edit: done

[Jane]

Lorna,

Don't forget you can use a Plugin to fix the problems pretty easily, if you don't want to edit them manually, you just add them into the main loop

So for example if you have ABT. 1905 you can fix it using the code below.

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            -- Clean up date
            iYear = nil
            iYear = tonumber(string.match(strPhrase,'%d%d%d%d'))
            print(strPhrase,iYear)
            if iYear ~= nill then
               -- Got a Year
               if string.find(strPhrase,'ABT.') then
                  dpDatePoint:SetValue(iYear)
                  dtDate:SetSimpleDate(dpDatePoint,'approximate')
                  fhSetValueAsDate(pi,dtDate)
               end
            end