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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Need help creating shell script with output that has 2014 calendar and 2 text items from a"fortune" Post 302828339 by vbe on Tuesday 2nd of July 2013 09:38:54 AM
Old 07-02-2013
Look at my updated last post:
Start by doing the calendar part:
When you dont know what to do, you try simple instructions... look at my first post thenlook at the output of cal 2013 doesnt that inspire you? Do you see now the reason of the temporary file ? ( save the output...)
Get that working and we will see next step...
 

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INTLCAL_GET_ERROR_MESSAGE(3)						 1					      INTLCAL_GET_ERROR_MESSAGE(3)

IntlCalendar::getErrorMessage - Get last error message on the object

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SYNOPSIS
public string IntlCalendar::getErrorMessage (void ) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style: string intlcal_get_error_message (IntlCalendar $calendar) Returns the error message (if any) associated with the error reported by IntlCalendar.getErrorCode(3) or intlcal_get_error_code(3). If there is no associated error message, only the string representation of the name of the error constant will be returned. Otherwise, the message also includes a message set on the side of the PHP binding. PARAMETERS
o $calendar - The calendar object, on the procedural style interface. RETURN VALUES
The error message associated with last error that occurred in a function call on this object, or a string indicating the non-existance of an error. EXAMPLES
Example #1 intlcal_get_error_message(3) <?php $cal = IntlCalendar::createInstance('UTC', 'en_US'); var_dump($cal->getErrorMessage()); $cal->getWeekendTransition(IntlCalendar::DOW_WEDNESDAY); var_dump($cal->getErrorMessage()); The above example will output: string(12) "U_ZERO_ERROR" string(82) "intlcal_get_weekend_transition: Error calling ICU method: U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR" PHP Documentation Group INTLCAL_GET_ERROR_MESSAGE(3)
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