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NAME WEEKDAY$
Chapter 2 Program Instructions
Field of Application Statement for formatting the day parameter in return strings of
WEEKDAY$.
Syntax NAME WEEKDAY$ ,
is the number of the weekday according to the WEEKDAY$
function syntax (Monday = 1... Sunday = 7)
is the desired name of the weekday.
(Default: Full English name in lowercase characters, i.e.
Monday, Tuesday etc).
Remarks This statement allows you to assign names to the different weekdays in any
form and language you like. The names will be returned instead of the
corresponding numbers in connection with WEEKDAY$ function.
Example This example shows how to make the printer return the name of the weekday
as an English 3-letter abbreviation:
10 FORMAT DATE$ ", MM/DD/YY"
20 DATE$="990601"
30 NAME WEEKDAY$ 1, "Mon"
40 NAME WEEKDAY$ 2, "Tue"
50 NAME WEEKDAY$ 3, "Wed"
60 NAME WEEKDAY$ 4, "Thu"
70 NAME WEEKDAY$ 5, "Fri"
80 NAME WEEKDAY$ 6, "Sat"
90 NAME WEEKDAY$ 7, "Sun"
100
RUN
PRINT WEEKDAY$ (DATE$) + DATE$("F")
yields:
Sun, 06/01/99
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