Sort on European date

Ruby
1

Hi,

date = [‘15/10/1971’, ‘16/10/1972’, ‘12/12/1971’]
real = date.map {|s| Date.parse s}
puts real.sort

Could anyone please tell me how I can parse the date in this sort with
a European format?

Thanks

Aidy

2

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:45 AM, aidy[email protected] wrote:

Hi,

date = [‘15/10/1971’, ‘16/10/1972’, ‘12/12/1971’]
real = date.map {|s| Date.parse s}
puts real.sort

Could anyone please tell me how I can parse the date in this sort with
a European format?

real = date.map {|s| Date.strptime(s, “%d/%m/%Y”)}

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