copyFrom:14 to: 17 copies 4 characters. You're testing a 4 character long string against a 3 character long string. That's why the test fails. Either change it to copyFrom: 15 to:17 or add a trimBoth send to month temp var. You may have an easier time not using temp variables in the workspace as you can then explore/inspect them more easily to see what they contain after the calculation has or has not done what you expected. Offray wrote
Hi all,
I'm making a small data scrapper[1] in pharo to feed some visualizations. The data I'm scrapping contains strings with dates in Spanish like '16:21 - 15 de jun. de 2011' and I would like to convert them to proper dates in Smalltalk. So I started prototyping an Small script at [2], but the problem is that monthIndex at: month doesn't work because 'jun' is not in the dictionary (please refer to [2] for details). This is motivated by month = 'jun' giving false, but when I inspect month its content is 'jun', so I think that I'm missing something important.
[1] http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Offray/Dataviz [2] http://ws.stfx.eu/IOMTYZ0N9W29
So here come my questions:
a). How to get "monthIndex at: month" working properly so I can get '06' as the proper month index for the month 'jun' (junio).? b) Why month = 'jun' gives false? c) There is any way to convert strings which has months in different languages (for example Spanish) more directly?
Thanks,
Offray
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