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These functions extract information about the dates and places of events.
| Function | Description |
|---|---|
| string date(event) | Date returns the value of the first DATE line in an event, a node in a GEDCOM record tree. Date finds the first DATE line one level deeper than the event node. |
| string place(event) | Place returns the value of the first PLAC line in an event. |
| string year(event) | Year returns the first three or four digit number in the value of the first DATE line in an event; this number is assumed to be the year of the event. |
| string long(event) | Long returns the verbatim values of the first DATE and PLAC lines in an event, catenated together and separated by a comma. |
| string short(event) | Short abbreviates information from the first DATE and PLAC lines, catenates the shortened information together with a comma separator and returns it. An abbreviated date is its year; an abbreviated place is the last component in the value, further abbreviated if the component has an entry in the place abbreviation table. |
| event gettoday() | Gettoday creates an event that has today's date in the DATE line. |
| void dayformat(int) | Dayformat, monthformat, and,dateformat select output style
options for formatting the day, month, and overall date structure; stddate returns dates in
the selected style.
The day format codes passed to
dayformat are:
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| void monthformat(int) | Monthformat sets the month format style for later
stddate calls.
The month format codes passed to monthformat are:
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| void dateformat(int) | Dateformat sets the overall output format style
for later stddate calls.
The date formats are encoded as:
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| string stddate(event) | Stddate returns the date of the event, formatted according to the current month, day and date settings. |
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