And yes, you are right, if run during those special occasions, my code would be wrong for quite a few variables. My next task was going to be trying to solve for that.
1. ALLC_CurrentWeek - Day in which script is ran
2.ALLC_CurrentPeriod - Assumes the same behavior of what we spoke about before, your posy #18.
3.PriorQuarterAD - Same concept as post #18.
4.CurrentQtrInput -Same concept as post #18
5.PriorQtrInput - Same concept as post #18.
For instance, if day (Saturday which is the day the script is ran) is 12/31, ALLC_CurrentWeek would be 12/31/16, ALLC_CurrentPeriod would be Jan, and PriorQuarter would be De, CurrentQtrInput would be Jan, and PriorQtrInput would be Dec.
And yes, you are right, if run during those special occasions, my code would be wrong for quite a few variables. My next task was going to be trying to solve for that.
1. ALLC_CurrentWeek - Day in which script is ran
2.ALLC_CurrentPeriod - Assumes the same behavior of what we spoke about before, your posy #18.
3.PriorQuarterAD - Same concept as post #18.
4.CurrentQtrInput -Same concept as post #18
5.PriorQtrInput - Same concept as post #18.
For instance, if day (Saturday which is the day the script is ran) is 12/31, ALLC_CurrentWeek would be 12/31/16, ALLC_CurrentPeriod would be Jan, and PriorQuarter would be De, CurrentQtrInput would be Jan, and PriorQtrInput would be Dec.
Thank you, Don!
You're giving examples again; not definitions. And the strings associated with these values do not correlate with the values you seem to want following them.
You seem to be saying that ALLC_CurrentWeek is a synonym for CurrentWeek. Why have two names for the same thing? If they aren't the same, what is the difference between them?
Note that I say the names don't correlate to the strings because a day (12/31/16) is not a week (12/31/16-01/06/17), but the string you put before the output specifying the Saturday at the start of the week in which you invoke this program is named CurrentWeek (and maybe also ALLC_CurrentWeek). Sometimes you call a month a Period and sometimes you call a month a Mnth and in your examples above you seem to be calling a month a Qtr. Naming something PriorQtrInput and assigning it a value that is an abbreviated month name provides me with no mnemonic relationship.
Please define the above terms in English; not just with examples from which you hope I'll be able to guess at a definition.
Sorry for the delay - was away on PTO fly-fishing for the last week.
To your comments about certain substitution variables (ALLC_CurrentWeek & CurrentWeek) being synonymous, yes that is correct. Certain target systems required different naming conventions for the subvars, even though each are the same value.
Yes, 12/31/16 is NOT a week, but rather a day. However, this particular client forecasts every week, and therefore, this indicates the start of the current Forecast week.
Mnth and Period are the same thing = Month. Again, the name convention is dictated by which target system they are going to, but they mean the same thing.
PriorQtrInput is the prior quarter (i.e. 1 2 3 or 4)
PriorQtrMnth1= the first month of the previous quarter
1. ALLC_CurrentWeek - The date in MM/DD/YY format that the script is executed. (In the 12/31/16 example, ALLC_CurrentWeek would be 12/31/16)
2. ALLC_CurrentPeriod - The current Month in which the script is executed, unless the next Saturday is greater than or equal to the 2nd day of the month, then ALLC_CurrentPeriod would be that month (In the 12/31/16 example, ALLC_CurrentPeriod would be JAN17.)
3. PriorQuarterAD - Prior quarter number, unless the next Saturday is greater than or equal to the 2nd day of the month AND in the next quarter, then PriorQuarter would actually be the CURRENT quarter (In the 12/31/16 example, PriorQuarterAD would be AD4-16 ...note the "4")
4. CurrentQtrInput - Current quarter number, unless the next Saturday is greater than or equal to the 2nd day of the month AND in the next quarter, then CurrentQtrInput would actually be the next quarter (In the 12/31/16 example, CurrentQtrInput value would be FY 1Q2017_input ...note "1")
5. PriorQtrInput - Same definition as #3 from above (In the 12/31/16 example, PriorQtrInput would be FY 4Q2016_input)
Also, here is the output when I ran it on 5/23/17 (I ran it on a Tuesday, rather than a Saturday, but you get the point):
Thank you for all your help, Don! Please let me know if you need any additional clarity. Again, the /\"' symbols encasing the values of each subvar are required to be able to import spaces and special characters.
Last edited by SIMMS7400; 06-05-2017 at 01:04 PM..
Please show us the actual contents of one of the actual files that you have shipped to one of your customers (preferably for the data you would have gotten by running your script on Saturday, May 28, 2017 so we can more easily verify which month and quarter values are based on Calendar week dates and which are based on Fiscal week dates). After playing around with your problem a bit, it seems that calendar week values are based on the date values for the Saturday in the week and fiscal week values are based on the date values for the Friday at the end of the same week. Note that the code I'm playing with always produces data for a Saturday (the current date if I run it on Saturday or give it a date to process that is a Saturday OR the immediately prior Saturday if I run it on any other day of the week or give it a date to process that is not a Saturday), so showing me values showing results for a Tuesday just confuses things.
The quoting you have shown us in post #25 for some of these variable can't possibly be correct. For example, the quoting on:
with a zero backslash-escaped and one of two single-quotes backslash-escaped makes absolutely no sense to me as a programmer trying to imagine why any parser would want that input. If you have historical data for the files you have produced for your customers, please show us contents of the files you sent out on 05/28/2017 (presumably the last data you sent out), 01/28/2017, and 12/31/2016.
This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
I do not have historical content as I'm going through an effort to automate this as it's currently done manually. Then, I'll enable an archive piece (as you see in the script).
The content does not get shipped to customers. What happens is it produces the content output as shown above. Then, the shell script reads col1 and col2 and imports that into the target system as substitution variable and its value.
The \/' symbols are used to import. The particular engine that does the actual import (maxl) requires those symbols as escape characters to import properly.
So, lets just test one, CurrentWeek.
${_SUBVARPATH}${_YEAR}_${_MONTH}${_DAY}/Subvar_List.txt is created with the following content:
Quote:
CurrentWeek,'\06/05/17\'
Then, the shell script reads col1 and col2, passes those values to a Maxl script as shown here:
The MaxL file (${_MAXLSCRIPTPATH}Update_Subvars.mxl) is as follows:
In the above code, $5 is the subvar (col1) and $subvar is the value (col2).
The log file is as follows:
And then the the import process reflects the subvar and value as follows:
(see attachment).
So again, the \/'" symbols are used as escape characters for the MAXL engine to import correctly with spaces, slashes and double quotes in the value.
Does that make more sense?
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