From: Peter Suschlik <peter@...>
Date: 2002-08-29T09:49:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie converting brain from perl

Hi,

[..]
>     date = "28 Aug 2002"
>     day, month, year = /(\d+) (\w+) (\d+)/.match(date)[1..3]

day, month, year = date.scan(/[\d\w]+/) # => ["28", "August", "2002"]

Regards
  Peter