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Absolutely fantastic.  Thanks everyone - you've been a great help.

On 5/3/06, Trevor Squires <trevor / protocool.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> using a range might be clearer:
>
> begin_date = Date.parse('01-jan-2006')
> end_date = Date.parse('18-mar-2006')
> (begin_date..end_date).each {|date| puts date.strftime('%d-%b-%Y')}
>
> Regards,
> Trevor
> --
> Trevor Squires
> http://somethinglearned.com
>
>
>
> On 3-May-06, at 12:48 PM, Doug Bromley wrote:
>
> > Always happens doesn't it!!
> >
> > As soon as you post for help you find the answer.
> >
> > If you have a better way then I'd love to still hear it but this is
> > what I
> > found:
> >
> > begin_date = Date.new(2006, 1, 1)
> > end_date = Date.new(2006, 5, 1)
> >
> > begin_date.step(end_date, 1) { |myDate|
> >  # Do something with myDate
> >  puts myDate.to_s
> > }
> >
> > Gives me the incremental date (recognising month ends) all the way
> > to the
> > end.
> >
> > Thanks everyone.
> >
> > On 5/3/06, Doug Bromley <doug.bromley / gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All
> >>
> >> I've spent some time trying to find what I thought would be a simple
> >> solution, but so far I've failed
> >> Simply put; I want to pick a start date and end date with a format of
> >> "01-jan-2006".  Then increment by one day the date until it
> >> reaches the
> >> end
> >> date.  For example:
> >>
> >> 01-jan-2006
> >> 02-jan-2006
> >> 03-jan-2006
> >> 04-jan-2006
> >>
> >> However it also needs to clock onto the next month - I'm hoping
> >> the class
> >> can do this without any special code?  So when it hits say "28-
> >> feb-2006"
> >> the
> >> next increment will be "01-mar-2006".
> >>
> >> This is probably incredibly simple and I've looked on Google and the
> >> Pickaxe
> >> book is on my lap as I type this but I'm just not seeing the answer.
> >>
> >> Many thanks for any help.
> >>
> >> All the best.
> >>
> >> Doug
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

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