From: h.fulton@... Date: 2000-02-24T06:05:18+00:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:01556] Re: Complex numbers, etc. Thank you, matz. I will do one or the other. Let me investigate first. Hal > Hi, > > In message "[ruby-talk:01542] Complex numbers, etc." > on 00/02/23, h.fulton@att.net writes: > > |I am wondering if anyone has an idea for a problem of > |a similar nature that I could work on? By "similar > |nature" I mean relatively self-contained, easily grokked > |in its entirety, but not entirely trivial or useless. > > How about strptime(3) like date parsing function, or better parsedate. > lib/parsedate.rb is done by me, but is pretty ad hoc and ugly.