From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-12-26T21:14:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Accumulate total count for each month

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Soichi Ishida <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> I have a file that contains a list of STRING datetime like
>
> Thu Dec 20 00:58:17 +0000 2012
> Thu Dec 20 00:50:18 +0000 2012
> Thu Dec 20 00:48:53 +0000 2012
> Thu Dec 20 00:44:43 +0000 2012
> Thu Dec 20 00:42:32 +0000 2012
> ...
>
> Each line represents the occurrence of one event.
> I want to count the number of events occurred each month (or day).
>
> First, I have converted to DateTime objects. It's easy.

Better use Date since you want to count occurrences at dates.

> Normally, when counting the number of each word occurred in a file,
> using hash can help (each word as a key).  But this case, it is not that
> simple because the key is date object.

Why isn't that simple?  Did you actually try it?

> Do you have better ideas for counting the number of events each month?

require 'date'

counts = Hash.new 0

ARGF.each do |line|
  line.chomp!
  counts[Date.parse(line)] += 1
end

counts.sort_by {|d,| k}.each do |d, c|
  printf "%-20s %6d\n", d, c
end

Cheers

robert

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