From: Terry Improv_coder <tpensel@...>
Date: 2011-07-27T12:09:15+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I pass a variable to the Chroinc library function?

Thanks, Eric

 nextdate = Chronic.parse("next #{inputday}")


This worked. I am a newbie to Ruby, and I don't know all the variable 
syntax and relationships yet.

I appreciate it.

Terry
taz-uker.





Eric Christopherson wrote in post #1013197:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Terry Improv_coder <tpensel@pobox.com>
> wrote:
>> nextdate = Chronic.parse('next inputday')
> This sends it the exact string 'next inputday', when what you want to
> do is make a string from 'next ' + the contents of inputday. There are
> several ways to do that:
>
> # String interpolation (requires double quotes)
> nextdate = Chronic.parse("next #{inputday}")
>
> # String concatenation (single or double quotes)
> nextdate = Chronic.parse('next ' + inputday)
> nextdate = Chronic.parse("next " + inputday)
>
> etc.
>
>>
>> I have tried every $, @ , @@ and single quotes and double quote
>> combinations I can think of.
>
> It sounds like you need to review the differences between global ($),
> instance (@), and class (@@) variables, on the one hand; and local
> variables. inputday is a local variable, since it doesn't start with a
> distinguishing symbol; $inputday, @inputday, and @@inputday would all
> be different.

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