New User - Starter Questions

[CPerry]

Good evening boiler,

That’s cool that your family contains teachers, I teach primary school so I’ve had to teach myself all of this coding stuff myself. As you can imagine, it’s out of the grasp of most 5/7 year olds aha.

Yeah, true. I completely am at fault for whatever I did, I just don’t know what it was aha like you said though, all working! I rewrote the code from my old laptop to my server once it was done but the most I had was:
FileCopy, (Old), (New)(20210426) ready for tomorrow.
I suppose I would write this as (New)(DateVariable) and at the line above write DateVariable = … something?

Could you explain to me how variables work with AHK and how I would use a single string variable to store tomorrow’s date in the format I’ve mentioned a few times please? Sorry, I had a week away to do work-work so could do with a refresher.

[boiler]

This is how you would get tomorrow’s date with the format you indicated into a variable named Tomorrow:

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Tomorrow := A_Now
Tomorrow += 1, days
Tomorrow := SubStr(Tomorrow, 1, 8)

Then you can use that variable to copy a file to another with that date like this:

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FileCopy, TradingBotLiveV1.1.3, TradingBotLiveV1.1.3(%Tomorrow%)

Or it might be easier to always think in terms of expression syntax by forcing expressions where legacy syntax is otherwise expected:

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FileCopy, % "TradingBotLiveV1.1.3", % "TradingBotLiveV1.1.3(" Tomorrow ")"

[CPerry]

Thank you boiler!

This works a treat. I'll spend a few more days learning and extending my code myself around work now. Thank you for getting me this far!