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YYMMDD
Tiny DSL for idiomatic date parsing and formatting.
Overview
require "yymmdd"
include YYMMDD
puts yy/mm # 14/08 (i.e., today's date)
puts yyyy/mm # 2014/08
date = ymd(411207) # Date.new(1941, 12, 7)
date = Date.today
puts yyyy.mm.dd(date) # 2014.08.09
puts dd/mm/yy(date) # 08/09/14
puts ymd(date) # 1489
puts yymmdd(date) # 140809
date = yyyy.mm.dd("1941.12.07") # Date.new(1941, 12, 7)
date = mm.dd.yy("11.22.63") # Date.new(1963, 11, 22)
date = mm/dd/yy("11/21/99") # ...
date = mm/dd/yyyy("11/21/1999")
date = mm-dd-yyyy("11-21-1999")
date = m-d-y("11-21-99")
Installation
Rubygems:
gem install yymmdd
Bundler:
gem "yymmdd"
Usage
All functions are module_function
s
so you must include YYMMDD
to use them.
When given a String
it will attempt to parse it as the specified format and return a Date
.
When given a Date
it will return a String
in the specified format.
An ArgumentError
is raised if the date can't be parsed or formatted.
With no arguments it will return an instance of a String
-like object (it overrides to_s
and to_str
) representing
today's date in the specified format. In the most common cases you can treat it like a String
:
date = yyyy/mm/dd
puts "Today's date: #{date}"
text = ["Dates: ", yy/mm, yyyy/mm].join(", ")
text = "A great date: " << date
But in some instances you'll have to expilictly call to_s
:
printf "Today's date: %s\n", date.to_s
All the heavy lifting is done by Date#strftime
and Date.strptime
.
Format Specifiers
The table below lists the available format specifiers. All of these can be separated by one of the supported
delimiters: "/"
, "."
, or "-"
.
NameFormat dday of the year, no 0 padding ddday of the year mday of the month, no 0 padding mmday of the month y2 digit year yy2 digit year yyyy4 digit year
There are also combined, delimiterless functions for all combinations of the above, e.g., ymd
, mdy
, yymmdd
, etc...
Caveats
Due to operator precedence you can't mix delimiters.
Author
Skye Shaw [sshaw AT gmail.com]
License
Released under the MIT License: www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the yymmdd README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.