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šm98
šm98

Reputation: 85

How to distinguish between date, month and year in the string?

I have a question: How to use "strip" function to slice a date like "24.02.1999"? The output should be like this '24', '02', '1999'.

Can you help to solve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1857

Answers (5)

Abhijit Pritam Dutta
Abhijit Pritam Dutta

Reputation: 5591

Here you go

 date="24.02.1999"
 [dd,mm,yyyy] = date.split('.')
 output=(("'%s','%s','%s'") %(dd,mm,yyyy))
 print(output)

alternate way

 date="24.02.1999"
 dd=date[0:2]
 mm=date[3:5]
 yyyy=date[6:10]
 newdate=(("'%s','%s','%s'") %(dd,mm,yyyy))
 print(newdate)

one more alternate way

from datetime import datetime

date="24.02.1999"
date=datetime.strptime(date, '%d.%m.%Y')
date=(("'%s','%s','%s'") %(date.day,date.month,date.year))
print(date)

Enjoy

Upvotes: 0

Moinuddin Quadri
Moinuddin Quadri

Reputation: 48067

Instead of splitting the string, you should be using datetime.strptime(..) to convert the string to the datetime object like:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> my_date_str = "24.02.1999"
>>> my_date = datetime.strptime(my_date_str, '%d.%m.%Y')

Then you can access the values you desire as:

>>> my_date.day  # For date
24
>>> my_date.month  # For month
2
>>> my_date.year  # For year
1999

Upvotes: 0

Sreeram TP
Sreeram TP

Reputation: 11907

You need to use split() not strip().

strip() is used to remove the specified characters from a string.

split() is used to split the string to list based on the value provided.

date = str(input()) # reading input date in dd.mm.yyyy format
splitted_date = date.split('.') # splitting date 

day = splitted_date[0] # storing day
month = splitted_date[1] # storing month
year = splitted_date[2] # storing year

# Display the values
print('Date : ',date)
print('Month : ',month)
print('Year : ',year)

You can split date given in DD.MM.YYYY format like this.

Upvotes: 0

yash
yash

Reputation: 1357

strip is used to remove the characters. What you meant is split. For your code, 

date = input('Enter date in the format (DD.MM.YY) : ')
dd, mm, yyyy = date.strip().split('.')
print('day = ',dd)
print('month = ',mm)
print('year = ',yyyy)

Output:

Enter date in the format (DD.MM.YY) : 24.02.1999
day =  24
month =  02
year =  1999

Upvotes: 0

Sandeep Lade
Sandeep Lade

Reputation: 1943

You can do like this

    >>> stri="24.02.1999"
    >>> stri.split('.')
    ['24', '02', '1999']
    >>>

Upvotes: 1

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