Hi Blake, On 30 Oct 2013, at 21:55, blake <dsblakewat...@gmail.com> 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? Using the ‘by example’ formatter/parser that is part of the ZTimestamp package (can be loaded using the Configuration Browser), you could say: (ZTimestampFormat fromString: '20010203') format: Date today. Although it is called ZTimestampFormat, it can actually work with Date, Time, DateAndTime as well. Sven
