Date today yyyymmdd.      "prints '2013-10-30'"

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On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:55 PM, blake <[email protected]> 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?

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