On 09 Jul 2014, at 17:04, Buddha Buck <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know how this could be useful besides doing many things: "Split a > > string on dashes, reverse the order of the elements and join them using > > slashes". If you could find a example with some real application would be > > nice too. > > Yes indeed, it does not make enough sense. Any ideas ? > > There are probably better ways to do it (using true date objects) but > converting ISO date strings to US or EU date strings (yyyy-mm-dd to > mm-dd-yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy) is almost "Split a string on dashes, rearrange the > order of the elements and join them using slashes." I changed the example to use the euro/us date conversion as that is indeed something most people will understand. Thx!
