Purpose

Apply Date/Time Stamp to Special Comment Line.

Operation

This function stamps the current date/time into any comment statement that is of the form:

delimiter yyyy.mm.dd hh:mm when delimiter is set from an entry in a table keyed to the extension of the file.

This function calls tlaDateTime and as such will help implement your organization standard date/time stamp.

It is useful to have a "starter" date/time in the template that you use for module creation. If you use the supplied format emitted by tlaDateTime, an example of a "starter" date/time for C# might be:

// 2002.01.01 12:00      Copyright 1993-2005 ...

The document types (file extensions) currently supported by this function are:

Example

tlaComment( )

Return Codes

Reference

This function calls tlaDateTime.

Compatibility

Reference

None.

Compatibility

Current version verified under:

• Visual SlickEdit 8.0

Installation

Perform the following steps:

• Select the Code button on this page.
• When the second window opens, select all the text in the text box.
• Issue Ctl-C (copy).
• Create a file in Visual SlickEdit with type Slick-C and extension ".e".
• Issue Ctl-V (paste).
• Issue Ctl-S (save).
• Select PFK-12 to compile the macros.

Purchase

tlaSlick is a Visual Slick-C module that contains all of the Slick-C macros on this website in a single easy to install package. The tlaSlick module can be purchased by selecting the Buy button on this page.

tlaComment is included as a function in tlaSlick.