You could have a look at the ZTimestamp package (you can load it using the Configuration Browser, the repository is http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~SvenVanCaekenberghe/Neo). It has a class ZTimestampFormat which currently formats & parses dates/times/timestamps in 4 languages "by example". You could add Spanish, I guess. Contribution are welcome. For example, (ZTimestampFormat fromString: '_3 February 2001') french; parse: ' 7 Août 1967'.
On 05 Apr 2015, at 18:18, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <offray@riseup.net> 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