From: "Florian Aßmann" <florian.assmann@...>
Date: 2007-09-03T06:26:21+09:00
Subject: Re: extract a range start/end?

Hi Michael,
> opts = OptionParser.new do |opts|
>  opts.on("-s", "--startdate", "What start date to use." do |i|
>    #code to determine to use the starting date

# see Parsedate#parsedate at
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/parsedate/rdoc/classes/ParseDate.html#M001494

@startdate = Parsedate.parsedate i

> end

> i was thinking i could possibly create a new range depending on what the
> user input was by doing
> 
> require 'date'
> results = []
# delete this

> 
> (Date.new(2007,4,1)..Date.new(2007,4,8)).each {|r| res << r}
result = (@startdate..@enddate).to_a

> but then how would i match that against the original dates for the data?
match = original & result

Oyasumi
Florian