From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: If clause depending on name of the day
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:03:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aa2sle8p.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.462.1333483518.20052.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Lars Ljung <lars@matholka.se> wrote:
>> "Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch> writes:
>>> Is it possible to have an if-condition that looks for the current day?
>>> So that the then-expression does something different on Tuesday than on
>>> Friday?
>>
>> (nth 6 (decode-time)) returns 0-6 for Sunday-Saturday.
>
> So you could do something like this:
>
> (require 'cl)
> (case (nth 6 (decode-time))
> (0
> (message "Today is Sunday"))
> ((1 3 5)
> (message "Today is Monday, Wednesday, or Friday"))
> (2
> (message "Today is Tuesday"))
> (t
> (message "It's some other day.")))
(message "Today is %s" (aref ["Sunday" "Monday" "Tuesday" "Wednesday"
"Thirsday" "Friday" "Saturday"]
(nth 6 (decode-time))))
--> "Today is Tuesday"
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-03 19:16 If clause depending on name of the day Sven Bretfeld
2012-04-03 19:32 ` Lars Ljung
2012-04-03 19:57 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-03 20:05 ` PJ Weisberg
[not found] ` <mailman.462.1333483518.20052.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-03 21:03 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
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2012-04-03 19:50 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-04-03 20:58 ` Sven Bretfeld
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