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I am new to Automagic (and blown away by how capable it is!) and I am trying to figure out how to convert a month variable from a number to text. In other words, I need to convert "03" to "Mar". The flow I'm trying to create needs to copy a file that has the format "App List Mar 21, 2014.txt".

I saw on the Date Format Pattern page that the L or M symbols can be either text or a number, but I can't figure out how to get anything other than a number. I've searched the forum and played around with the syntax, but I'm not getting anywhere. The syntax I'm currently working with is:

<script>Vartest1="The filename is App List {getDate(),dateformat,L} {getDate(),dateformat,d}, {getDate(),dateformat,yyyy}.txt";</script>

and the output is:

"The filename is App List 3 21, 2014.txt"

Is there a way to convert the number or do I have to do an if/then loop that converts 1 to Jan, 2 to Feb, etc.

Thanks very much in advance.

Hi,

You can use MMM as the dateformat pattern to show the textual month abbreviation and MMMM to show the full month name.
Following script should work:
Vartest1="The filename is App List {getDate(),dateformat,MMM} {getDate(),dateformat,d}, {getDate(),dateformat,yyyy}.txt";

Note that Automagic uses the month names provided by Android using the system language.

Regards,
Martin

Perfect - that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the quick and detailed response, Martin!