From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-10-06T20:31:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for the wrong reason

Hi --

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, 7stud -- wrote:

> flebber wrote:
>> Secondly I found capturing the date input from a console in python to
>> be a little long winded, below is the script I wrote in python would
>> this be significantly easier in Ruby.
>>
>
> No.  I think in ruby the code would be almost exactly the same--except
> it's significantly harder to figure out in ruby because there is no
> documentation about the format specifiers you can use with strftime()
> and strptime().  Amazing, huh?

I usually go straight to the system library documentation for this
stuff, but ri Time#strftime will help you too.


David

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