Is there, somewhere out there, a page/reference where I can understand the exact syntax used for the various time, date, hour, month, day variables used in Axure? I’m using them in prototypes all the time, but only from stealing working strings from other prototypes I didn’t build, and some of the calculations just defy my comprehension.
For instance (Time) and substrings. (Time.length) returns 18 but when I just do (Time) I’m returned something like HH:MM:SS AM - which to me counts as 11, and so if I want to extract specific bits of (Time) I can only do it by flogging someone else’s work which I don’t really understand, as using simple substring character position counting returns me not what I’m expecting - so clearly there’s something I don’t understand about (Time) and its length and how to work on it. But everyone else seems to know it.
I’ve looked at any number of threads in this forum - and they have a lot of useful tips for how to solve exact problems which people are having - and I’ve looked through the Axure site and nowhere can I find a simple explanation of the syntax for these functions, armed with which I may actually be able to do things I want to do instead of spending hours haunting this place trying to work it out and grinding my teeth in frustration when I can’t understand what’s in front of me.
I’m not after a solution to the particular problem above as such, I’m after a reference where I can read up and work out what, conceptually, I don’t know. I’m not stupid, I’m just missing some information.
TIA anyone who can help!