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:Jeff@UgoFast.com] 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"

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