On Tuesday 09 October 2007, John Zaitseff wrote:
> Dear Nicolas / LilyPonders,
>
> I store a field in the header, lastupdated, in the form "09-Oct-2007";
> the \parsed-date function converts that to something like "9 October,
> 2007":
>
> % \parsed-date DATE - convert a DD-MMM-YYYY property to a fully printed
> date #(define-markup-command (parsed-date layout props date) (symbol?)
> "Convert the property @var{date} containing a date in the
> form DD-MMM-YYYY into a nicely formatted stencil output D MMMM,
> YYYY."
> (let* ((datestr (chain-assoc-get date props)))
> (interpret-markup layout props
> (if (string? datestr)
> (markup #:simple
> (strftime "%e %B, %Y" (car (strptime "%d-%b-%Y"
> datestr)))) datestr))))
>
> (Of course, I should rewrite that to make it somewhat more robust.
> It works for me, however).
You may want to use SRFI-19 for this,
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/SRFI_002d19.html#SRFI_002d19
Erik
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