From: Dan Daniels <sdsurfgeek@...>
Date: 2007-08-01T07:55:00+09:00
Subject: Re: help with string matching


>> Would Time#strftime be better?
> 
> Easier to read, I think. Or if you're using a Date object, you could
> use Date#strftime.  It also looks like you're adding a month to
> @calendar1, which is easy with a Date object:
> 
>>> d1 = Date.civil(2007,06,30)
> => #<Date: 4908563/2,0,2299161>
> 
>>> d1.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
> => "2007-06-30"
> 
>>> d2 = d1 >> 1
> => #<Date: 4908623/2,0,2299161>
> 
>>> d2.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
> => "2007-07-30"


I see. Also easier to imagine the output when you call it as %Y-%m-%d.

@calendar1 is a gtk calendar widget, and within ruby calling 
@calendar1.date
returns the date as 2007730, which caused Date.parse to crash as there 
is only 1 part instead of the expected 3. That is why I used the 
@calendar1.year @calendar1.month @calendar1.day, but @calendar1.month 
returns 0 based months, which is why I used @calendar1.month + 1, which 
works, but looks sloppy.

So, how would you parse a date formated as 2007730 into 2007-06-30? I 
know that I could parse it out manually, but I'm assuming there is a 
more elegant solution.

Thank you for your help.
Dan
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