On 30 October 2013 20:55, 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
Why not "%04d%02d%02d" % [d.year, d.month, 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? Chris has already given a near solution. You just need to "select: #isDigit" on the end of his answer to get exactly what you want. frank
