Rails - Jun 2006 - How to get dd mmm and yyyy from dd-mmm-yyyy

The input values could be something like this:
01-Dec-2006
01-December-2006
1-June-2006

Is there an easy to way to get the three variables populated dd, mmm and
yyyy for any of the above input values? I tried to look at regex but
couldn''
anything simple.

Thanks
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Neeraj Kumar wrote:
> The input values could be something like this:
> 01-Dec-2006
> 01-December-2006
> 1-June-2006
> 
> Is there an easy to way to get the three variables populated dd, mmm and
> yyyy for any of the above input values? I tried to look at regex but 
> couldn''
> anything simple.
>
http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M001875

''01-December-2006''.split ''-''

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On Jun 5, 2006, at 01:15 PM, Matthew Beale wrote:
> Neeraj Kumar wrote:
>> The input values could be something like this:
>> 01-Dec-2006
>> 01-December-2006
>> 1-June-2006
>>
>> Is there an easy to way to get the three variables populated dd,  
>> mmm and
>> yyyy for any of the above input values? I tried to look at regex but
>> couldn''
>> anything simple.
>>
>
> http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M001875
>
> ''01-December-2006''.split ''-''
Which would return an Array object. If you wanted to easily have the  
values sent to your three variables, you can do:

   dd, mmm, yyyy = ''01-December-2006''.split
''-''

-Brian

Neeraj Kumar wrote:
> The input values could be something like this:
> 01-Dec-2006  1-June-2006
> 01-December-2006
> 1-June-2006
> 
> Is there an easy to way to get the three variables populated dd, mmm and
> yyyy for any of the above input values? I tried to look at regex but 
> couldn''
> anything simple.
Hi, sorry for the late reply. ParseDate.parsedate(string) will do what 
you are looking for. There''s some documentation here:

   http://www.rubycentral.com/book/lib_standard.html

(open the page and then find parsedate)

For example, in irb:

irb(main):004:0> require ''parsedate''
=> false
irb(main):005:0> s1 = ''01-Dec-2006''
=> "01-Dec-2006"
irb(main):006:0> s2 = ''01-December-2006''
=> "01-December-2006"
irb(main):007:0> s3 = ''1-June-2006''
=> "1-June-2006"
irb(main):008:0> a1 = ParseDate.parsedate(s1)
=> [2006, 12, 1, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]
irb(main):009:0> y1, m1, d1 = ParseDate.parsedate(s1)
=> [2006, 12, 1, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]
irb(main):010:0> y1
=> 2006
irb(main):011:0> m1
=> 12
irb(main):012:0> d1
=> 1
irb(main):013:0> a2 = ParseDate.parsedate(s2)
=> [2006, 12, 1, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]
irb(main):014:0> a3 = ParseDate.parsedate(s3)
=> [2006, 6, 1, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]

regards

   Justin