From: Marcin Grzywaczewski <killavus@...>
Date: 2007-09-03T05:30:02+09:00
Subject: Re: extract a range start/end?

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2007/9/2, Michael Linfield <globyy3000@hotmail.com>:
>
> if i have a list of dates in an array such as:
>
> 4/2/07
> 4/3/07
> 4/4/07
> 4/5/07
> 4/6/07
> 4/7/07
> 4/8/07
> ect.
>
> how would i..based on option parse..pull a starting point and end point
> of to extract that data range.
>
> IE:
>
> opts = OptionParser.new do |opts|
> opts.on("-s", "--startdate", "What start date to use." do |i|
>    #code to determine to use the starting date
> end
>
> # the same would apply to an --enddate
>
> any ideas?
>
> i was thinking i could possibly create a new range depending on what the
> user input was by doing
>
> require 'date'
> results = []
>
> (Date.new(2007,4,1)..Date.new(2007,4,8)).each {|r| res << r}
> but then how would i match that against the original dates for the data?
>
> feel free to give me any thoughts.
>
> -Thanks
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.


I think that range operates on numbers, and method "to_i" casts class to
number, so your class should have specific method "to_i".

Yours,
Killavus.

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