How to iterate on date ranges

Hi…here me again
If user enters, 2 date parameters.i want to find all the folders between
these date ranges.
For example if the user enters 2009-01-02 and 2009-01-30.i want to make
check between these two dates.
I have done below code for single date parameter.but i don’t know how to
iterate for two date ranges.
Dir.foreach(“ChatHistory”) do |folder_name|
if folder_name == params[:e_date][1]
@sub_folder = Array.new
Dir.foreach(File.join(“ChatHistory”,folder_name)) do |sub_folder_name|
@sub_folder << sub_folder_name
end
end
end
pls kindly assist me friends.

2009/1/28 Newb N. [email protected]:

Dir.foreach(File.join(“ChatHistory”,folder_name)) do |sub_folder_name|
@sub_folder << sub_folder_name
end
end
end
You can make array of dates between two dates like this:

require ‘date’
arr = (‘2009-01-02’…‘2009-01-30’).select{|x| Date.parse(x) rescue nil}

Regards,

Park H.

On Jan 28, 2009, at 12:56 AM, Heesob P. wrote:

iterate for two date ranges.

require ‘date’
arr = (‘2009-01-02’…‘2009-01-30’).select{|x| Date.parse(x) rescue
nil}

Regards,

Park H.

Why iterate a range of Strings when you can just use Dates!

irb> require ‘date’
=> true
irb> (Date.parse(‘2009-01-02’) … Date.parse(‘2009-01-31’)).map{|d|
d.to_s}
=> [“2009-01-02”, “2009-01-03”, “2009-01-04”, “2009-01-05”,
“2009-01-06”, “2009-01-07”, “2009-01-08”, “2009-01-09”, “2009-01-10”,
“2009-01-11”, “2009-01-12”, “2009-01-13”, “2009-01-14”, “2009-01-15”,
“2009-01-16”, “2009-01-17”, “2009-01-18”, “2009-01-19”, “2009-01-20”,
“2009-01-21”, “2009-01-22”, “2009-01-23”, “2009-01-24”, “2009-01-25”,
“2009-01-26”, “2009-01-27”, “2009-01-28”, “2009-01-29”, “2009-01-30”,
“2009-01-31”]
irb> puts (Date.parse(‘2009-01-02’) … Date.parse(‘2009-03-31’))
2009-01-02…2009-03-31
=> nil
irb> puts (Date.parse(‘2009-01-02’) … Date.parse(‘2009-03-31’)).to_a

I don’t understand what you’re trying to do

-Rob

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