The ParseDate.parsdate method in the standard library does the first three on your list, http://www.rubycentral.com/book/lib_standard.html
I want that and some more fun stuff like your other examples or "last tuesday at 5", "four days ago in the afternoon" (maybe a little rediculous). It's the relative stuff that gets interesting... Does anyone know of something out there that will turn number strings (eg. "four") into a number? It gets fun when you do stuff like "thirteenth"... Chris On 8/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is natural language processing; i started working on my own this week, i have the following patterns implemented: ####-##-## dec[]##[]#### december[]##[]#### tomorrow next [day name] etc. Is this what you guys are looking for? -Jordan On 8/8/2006, "Patrick Crowley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I could see it being rolled into Rails, but not anytime soon. > >Best, >Patrick > > >On Aug 8, 2006, at 3:39 pm, Chris Van Pelt wrote: > >> I sent an email to 37 signals asking for theres... I doubt I'll see >> it. I'm working on my own, with little success. Hopefully we can get >> something usefull soon. >> >> Chris >_______________________________________________ >Sdruby mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby _______________________________________________ Sdruby mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby
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