[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"