From: Robo <robo@...>
Date: 2004-03-28T00:09:25+09:00
Subject: Formatting dates and counting words

Hi,

Just got started on making a real attempt in building a Ruby app, and got
some basic questions:

How do I format a date? E.g. something like PHP's date() function where it
can show a date as a string in various formats:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Secondly, given a string, how do I get the first few words from it? e.g. If
a string has 50 words, I want the first 10 words return.

Thanks

Robo