From: Trevor Squires <trevor@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T05:08:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Increment day across months

Hi Doug,

using a range might be clearer:

begin_date = Date.parse('01-jan-2006')
end_date = Date.parse('18-mar-2006')
(begin_date..end_date).each {|date| puts date.strftime('%d-%b-%Y')}

Regards,
Trevor
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Trevor Squires
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On 3-May-06, at 12:48 PM, Doug Bromley wrote:

> Always happens doesn't it!!
>
> As soon as you post for help you find the answer.
>
> If you have a better way then I'd love to still hear it but this is  
> what I
> found:
>
> begin_date = Date.new(2006, 1, 1)
> end_date = Date.new(2006, 5, 1)
>
> begin_date.step(end_date, 1) { |myDate|
>  # Do something with myDate
>  puts myDate.to_s
> }
>
> Gives me the incremental date (recognising month ends) all the way  
> to the
> end.
>
> Thanks everyone.
>
> On 5/3/06, Doug Bromley <doug.bromley@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I've spent some time trying to find what I thought would be a simple
>> solution, but so far I've failed
>> Simply put; I want to pick a start date and end date with a format of
>> "01-jan-2006".  Then increment by one day the date until it  
>> reaches the
>> end
>> date.  For example:
>>
>> 01-jan-2006
>> 02-jan-2006
>> 03-jan-2006
>> 04-jan-2006
>>
>> However it also needs to clock onto the next month - I'm hoping  
>> the class
>> can do this without any special code?  So when it hits say "28- 
>> feb-2006"
>> the
>> next increment will be "01-mar-2006".
>>
>> This is probably incredibly simple and I've looked on Google and the
>> Pickaxe
>> book is on my lap as I type this but I'm just not seeing the answer.
>>
>> Many thanks for any help.
>>
>> All the best.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>