[Zope] How do I get the first ten characters of a string?

[Loren Stafford]

The date is a complex object not a string. Zope provides many ways to format
it. Here is one:

<dtml-var "ZopeTime()" fmt=%Y/%m/%d>

-- Loren


> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On
> Behalf Of Lars
> Heber
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 09:37
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] How do I get the first ten characters of a string?
>
>
> Chris Withers schrieb:
>
>  > Lars Heber wrote:
>  > >
>  > > <dtml-let myTest="'some really senseless blah'">
>  > > <dtml-var *first 10 characters of myTest*>
>  > > </dtml-let>
>  >
>  > <dtml-var "myTest[:10]">
>  >
>  > cheers,
>  >
>  > Chris
>
>  I tested it out - didn't work.
>
>  I wanted to do that with a date:
>
>      <dtml-let datum="ZopeTime()+7">
>  <dtml-var "datum[:10]">
>     </dtml-let>
>
>  "Date is unsliceable"... ??? What I want to get is just the date
> without the time!
>
>  Any ideas?
>
> Some more questions:
>
> - I'd like to give my each instance of my ZClass a title,
> which is then
> shown in the folder window, just like documents for example.
> I tried to simply create a property "title" in my property
> sheet, but as
>
> expected, it of course didn't refer to that property to show it in the
> overview.
>
> - How can I get the source code of manage_main? I'd like to
> modify it a
> little within my ZClass.
>
> Thanks to you all!!!
>
>  Lars
>
>
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