From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T04:07:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Ordinal Date String to Standard Date String for a Beginner

David Boyd wrote:

>  PS Here's the beginner's way I used to parse the ordinal date string (eg
> "2005/17"):
>
> strYear = strDate[strDate.index("/")+1, strDate.length]
> strOrdn = strDate[0, strDate.index("/")]

strYear, strOrdn =  "2005/17".split("/")