General ⇒ Special symbols in latex

[ma501th]

I am trying to put the following script in a table all in one box with two columns, i need help to identify what are the special symbols in this coding:

var date=new Date(); //variable is set for date
var dayweek=date.getDay(); //variable day of the week is set for day
var dayweek_str:String; //variable day of the week is formatted as characters
var year=date.getFullYear(); //year will be displayed
var month=date.getMonth(); //variable is set for the month
var month_str:String; //variable month is formatted as characters
var days=date.getDate(); //variable is set for day
var days_str:String; //variable day is formatted as characters

switch (month){ //this section will declare a case value to correspond to a given month
case(0):month_str="January"; break;
case(1):month_str="February"; break;
case(2):month_str="March"; break;
case(3):month_str="April"; break;
case(4):month_str="May"; break;
case(5):month_str="June"; break;
case(6):month_str="July"; break;
case(7):month_str="August"; break;
case(8):month_str="September"; break;
case(9):month_str="Octomber"; break;
case(10):month_str="November"; break;
case(11):month_str="December"; break; }

if (days<10){ //this will read the current case value of the system date which will match a given month
days_str="0"+days;
}else{
days_str=days; }

switch (dayweek){ //this section will declare a case value to correspond to a given day of the week
case(0):dayweek_str="Sunday"; break;
case(1):dayweek_str="Monday"; break;
case(2):dayweek_str="Tuesday"; break;
case(3):dayweek_str="Wednesday "; break;
case(4):dayweek_str="Thursday"; break;
case(5):dayweek_str="Friday "; break;
case(6):dayweek_str="Saturday"; break; }

date_txt.text=dayweek_str+" "+days_str+" "+month_str+" "+year; //full date will be displayed as day date month year

Please can anybody help?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

look at the listings package and its user's guide.

Stefan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you could also just use a verbatim environment, for example:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
{\footnotesize
\begin{verbatim}
var date=new Date(); //variable is set for date
var dayweek=date.getDay(); //variable day of the week is set for day
var dayweek_str:String; //variable day of the week is formatted as characters
var year=date.getFullYear(); //year will be displayed
var month=date.getMonth(); //variable is set for the month
var month_str:String; //variable month is formatted as characters
var days=date.getDate(); //variable is set for day
var days_str:String; //variable day is formatted as characters

switch (month){ //this section will declare a case value to correspond to a given month
case(0):month_str="January"; break;
\end{verbatim}
}
\end{document}

But this could be more difficult when you want to use it inside tables for example. But there are packages like examplep that can handle this.

Stefan

[localghost]

I am trying to put the following script in a table all in one box with two columns, i need help to identify what are the special symbols in this coding:
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Please can anybody help?

Is that code of a specific programming language? If so, take a look a the listings package. It lets you format code in several predefined programming languages.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[Stefan Kottwitz]

As I mentioned in my first answer and Thorsten recommended too: the listings package is very useful! Depending on what you are going to do, it may save you a lot of time.

If you want to look at the possibilities: Here is the user's guide.

Stefan