Hi Jeff, (I've moved this to the Zope list out of Zope-Dev) <dtml-let month_value="MonthID[4:]"> ... do something with the result ... </dtml-let> Have a look at the Python documentation as it relates to "slicing". > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Nielsen / Ugo Fast [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 1:10 AM > To: Zope-Dev@Zope. Org > Subject: [Zope-dev] date formatting / extracting substrings > > > Hello out there in Zope world! > > Again, I'm completely baffled by Zope and the docs are no > help either. I'm > trying to take an input of a date in the form YYYYMM as the > variable MonthID > and create a string in the form Month, YYYY as a variable > named MonthName. > For instance, a MonthID of 200009 should return a MonthName > of "September, > 2000". > > I've been looking in the docs and the emails, but I can't > figure out how to > extract substrings. I think something like this should work > to seperate the > month value from the MonthID, but it doesn't: > > <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('MonthValue', _.substring(MonthID,5,2))"> > > Any guidance would be appreciated. > > ----------------------- > Jeff Nielsen > http://www.UgoFast.com/ > "Where U Go Fast" > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) > _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )