From: "Mike Mr." <saltydog4791@...>
Date: 2007-12-02T17:44:56+09:00
Subject: file renaming/parsing help

First of all let me say that I am an absolute newb when it comes to
rails.  I am simply trying to work on an existing script that was
written by someone else.

I need to take a filename that will always have a similar name and turn
it into an rfc2822 compliant line for an xml file.  Here is what I have
so far but I am absolutely lost as you can see.  sad

The filenames will always be the same, e.g. November 15,2007.mp3 or
September 7,2008.mp3, etc.  One thing I am concerned about is the day
since sometimes it will be a single digit and sometimes a double digit,
although I am sure their is a way around that too.

I would love if someone could shed some light on this for me.  I might
even learn something in the process.  smile

#The goal is turn "November 15,2007.mp3" into "Wed, 15 Nov 2007 19:00:00
GMT"
#
#So far the output below gives me Wed, Nov15


filename = "November 15, 2007.mp3"
puts "Wed, " + ( filename[0,3]) + ( filename[-12,2])
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