format

• property of date/time value, allowing direct access to the format, independently of the value. The format can be set to change the way the value displays.

  • new in 1.38

   set birthday to "April 3" as date
  put birthday's format —> "[monthName] [day]"

• property of numeric or data value -- new in 1.63 +

   put 7 into foo
  set foo's format to "words"
  put foo —> "seven"

• with format / using format operator -- new in 1.63