Good to know, thanks. That looks cool.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Blake, > > On 30 Oct 2013, at 21:55, 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 > > > > 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 >
