From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-01-17T06:13:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] this month, the next month, and the one after that

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:55:40 +0100, James Edward Gray II  
<james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

> On Jan 16, 2006, at 2:29 PM, David Vallner wrote:
>
>> Mind you, DateTime::MONTHNAMES is one-indexed, starting from January,
>
> We can fix that.  ;)
>
>> so you'll have to do some index-shiftingto wrap around the end of the  
>> array correctly. And since there's very little I hate more than  
>> shifting array indices around, the exercise is left to the reader ;P
>
> Okay, I'll bite:
>
>  >> current = Time.now.strftime("%B")
> => "January"
>  >> require "date"
> => true
>  >> months = (Date::MONTHNAMES + Date::MONTHNAMES).compact
> => ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July",  
> "August", "September", "October", "November", "December", "January",  
> "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August",  
> "September", "October", "November", "December"]
>  >> three_months = months[months.index(current), 3]
> => ["January", "February", "March"]
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>


Ye gods, that's so idiot-proof it ain't pretty anymore amd I let my brain  
spin around index shifts.. I've been doing WAAAY too much Java at work.  
Help, my 1337 R�by h@xx0r skills are disappearing! *sic*

David Vallner