From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2008-09-06T09:21:30+09:00
Subject: Re: How to parse <pubDate> in RSS


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> Datum: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 08:53:52 +0900
> Von: Ruby Girl <rubyongirl@gmail.com>
> An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Betreff: How to parse <pubDate> in RSS

> Hi Experts,
> 
> Is there another way to get a valid date from pubDate in RSS like this
> example:
>  <pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:12:56 GMT</pubDate>
> ...to a format (YYYYMMDD hh:mm:ss) that is recognizable by the parsers?
> 
> Ruby Girl
> -- 
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Hi Ruby Girl,

if you remove the <pubdate> and the weekday, parsing works:

require "date"
text="<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:12:56 GMT</pubDate>"
text.gsub!(/<\/*pubDate>/,'')
text.gsub!(/^...,/,'')
p text #text="23 Feb 2005 16:12:56 GMT"
p DateTime.parse(text)

Best regards,

Axel 
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