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What is the most efficient way to drop '#' from the first place and last

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[#400374] database part of a desktop application — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...>

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[#400375] Re: database part of a desktop application — Chad Perrin <code@...> 2012/10/16

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 05:28:39AM +0900, Sebastjan H. wrote:

[#400377] Re: database part of a desktop application — sto.mar@... 2012/10/17

Am 16.10.2012 23:24, schrieb Chad Perrin:

[#400389] Re: database part of a desktop application — Chad Perrin <code@...> 2012/10/17

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 01:39:21PM +0900, sto.mar@web.de wrote:

[#400386] Unable to send attachment, and dealing with multiple attachment — ajay paswan <lists@...>

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[#400454] Hash with Integer key issue — Wayne Simmerson <lists@...>

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[#400535] Name/symbol/object type clash? What is happening here? — Todd Benson <caduceass@...>

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[#400556] Calling a method foo() or an object foo.method_call_here - both — Marc Heiler <lists@...>

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[#400680] Passing folder as argument ARGV? — Joz Private <lists@...>

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[#400681] Re: Passing folder as argument ARGV? — brad smith <bradleydsmith@...> 2012/10/28

How are you traversing the directory you pass in on the command line ?

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root@nail:/projects/proc_fs# uname -a

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[#400781] bug?: local variable created in if modifier not available in modified expression — "Mean L." <lists@...>

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21 messages 2012/10/30
[#400807] Re: bug?: local variable created in if modifier not available in modified expression — Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@...> 2012/10/31

Oh, and in case it wasn't apparent: you can just add

[#400808] Re: bug?: local variable created in if modifier not available in modified expression — Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer@...> 2012/10/31

On 10/31/2012 4:52 PM, Bartosz Dziewoナгki wrote:

[#400809] Re: bug?: local variable created in if modifier not available in modified expression — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2012/10/31

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer@ngtech.co.il>wrote:

[#400784] REXML & HTMLentities incorrectly map to UTF-8 — "Mark S." <lists@...>

I have some XML data (UTF 8) that I'm trying to convert into another XML

13 messages 2012/10/30

Re: Ruby range - verify if date lies between two specified dates

From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2012-10-05 21:41:27 UTC
List: ruby-talk #400048
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:01 PM, ideal one <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>     I came across some issue in verifying if a date lies between two
> specified dates.
>
> now = Date.today
> today = now.strftime('%d-%b-%Y')
> last_Seven_Days = (now - 7).strftime('%d-%b-%Y')
>
> As per above, i am calculating today's date and previous seven days and
> putting in format (ex: 05-Oct-2012)
>
> Next I am getting a date from my screen Webpage(getText) and it's stored
> as a string 'initial_date'
>
> ui_date = '2012-10-01'
> initial_date = Date.parse ui_date
> initial_date = initial_date.strftime('%d-%b-%Y')
> puts initial_date => result in 01-Oct-2012
>
> range = (today..last_Seven_Days)
> I wanted of find if '01-Oct-2012' falls between the range.
> range === last_date => sometimes comes as TRUE sometimes as FALSE
>
> I dunno whether I am properly comparing dates or Strings..!!
> any better way and stable way to do this.
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>

first_date = Date.new(2012, 10, 1)
last_date = Date.new(2012, 10, 31)
range = (first_date..last_date)
range.include?(Date.new(2012, 10, 5))
=> true
range.include?(Date.new(2012, 11, 1))
=> false

Todd

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