Why not a more discriminating example, like '19991231'? 2013/10/30 Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu>
Hi Blake,
On 30 Oct 2013, at 21:55, blake <dsblakewatson@gmail.com> wrote:
Heya, guys--
Converting a Ruby program to Pharo, and one of the things this program does is write a file out by date. The format is "yyyymmdd" (which is my preferred naming convention). In Ruby I have:
"%04d" % d.year + "%02d" % d.month + "%02d" % d.day
In Smalltalk, the closest I can seem to get to this is:
d year asString, (d monthIndex asString padLeftTo: 2 with: $0), (d dayOfMonth asString padLeftTo: 2 with: $0)
...which seems sort verbose. Anyone have any more elegant solutions?
Using the âby exampleâ formatter/parser that is part of the ZTimestamp package (can be loaded using the Configuration Browser), you could say:
(ZTimestampFormat fromString: '20010203') format: Date today.
Although it is called ZTimestampFormat, it can actually work with Date, Time, DateAndTime as well.
Sven