From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-05-07T17:27:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Date Parsing

Clement Ow wrote:
> Clement Ow wrote:
>> 
>>>   puts "I don't want to delete this file"
>>> end
>> 
>> Hi, thanks for that, did'nt know you can do it this way ;)
>> However, I have 2 formats, one yyyymmdd and the other just ddmmyyyy(w/o
>> any dashes). Unfortunately Parsedate cannot be used for ddmmyyyy. Only
>> yyyymmdd can work. Any ideas?
> 
> or is there any way that we can convert something like ddmmyyyy to 
> yyyymmdd so that it'll work when we use Date or parsedate to parse dates 
> in order to not raise an invalid date error?

Any string can be parsed using one of the examples I posted.





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