Purpose:  Lua does not have milliseconds and sometimes you have a need to output a two digit millisecond. I built this particularly for when outputting HL7 messages to a file i needed the files to be in sequence based upon milliseconds.  If you are just trying to benchmark then you can use os.clock but it gets a little trickier when trying to get a valid two digit millisecond.

Links:

• If you are Benchmarking here are some options

Steps to Build:

• Open a Translator
• Create a Shared module and name it ‘milliseconds’
• Paste code into module

  function ms()
  mil = tostring(string.format("%.2f", os.clock()))
     mil = mil:sub(mil:find('%.'),mil:len())
     mil = 60 * mil
     mil = tostring(mil)
     subd = mil:find('%.')
  
     if mil:len() == 4 then 
        mil = mil:sub(0, subd -1)
     elseif mil:len() == 3 then 
        mil = '0' .. mil:sub(0, subd-1)
     elseif mil:len() == 2 then 
        mil = mil:sub(0, subd)
     elseif mil:len() == 1 then
        mil = '0'..mil:sub(0, subd)
     end
     return mil
  
  end

• Import shared module from main script by entering “require ‘millisecond'”
• Test it out by typing trace(ms()) in an active function